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People charge their mobile phones from a truck of the municipality of Chacao during a blackout in Caracas on August 30, 2024. [AFP]
More than 700 people arrested during protests that erupted after Venezuela's disputed presidential election have been transferred to maximum security prisons, a human rights group said Saturday.
The detainees, who had been held at police stations around the country, were transferred over the past week to two notorious prisons that were previously controlled by gangs, the Venezuelan Prisons Observatory said.
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