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Feb. 23 (UPI) --Nearly 300 political prisoners held at El Rodeo I prison on the outskirts of Caracas have launched a hunger strike in demanding their release, relatives said. Families of the detainees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hunger strike that started on Saturday is now the last effort of relatives of Venezuelan prisoners to demand the freedom of ...

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With dark circles under their eyes and feeling weak but angry, about a dozen female relatives of Venezuelan political prisoners staged day three of a hunger strike Monday demanding their loved ones' ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Relatives of Venezuelan prisoners went on hunger strike on Saturday to demand the freedom of their loved ones as politicians in the South American nation debate an amnesty law for ...

More than 200 Venezuelan political prisoners were on hunger strike Sunday to demand their release under a new amnesty law that excludes many of them. The inmates at the Rodeo I prison, about 40 ...