Dozens of people detained during protests over Venezuela’s disputed presidential election have been released, according to the local rights group Foro Penal.

Venezuela has freed 225 people arrested during anti-government protests over the nation's disputed presidential election in July, Attorney General Tarek Saab said late on Saturday. The releases were based on new evidence gathered by prosecutors,

More than 100 political prisoners caught up in a post-election crackdown have been released, according to a human rights group.

Venezuela’s government has released some of the thousands of people who were detained during and after deadly protests that followed the July presidential election.

It was the first major release of dissidents since the start of President Nicolás Maduro’s crackdown, which advocates say has been the worst in the country’s recent history.

Venezuelan authorities freed 225 people this weekend who were detained in protests against the disputed reelection of President Nicolas Maduro in July, the prosecutor's office said Saturday.