The prisoners insisted their protest was peaceful but that security forces deployed to quell it opened fire.

In a small flat in a social housing complex near Caracas, Adriana Briceño holds up what looks like a piece of rubbish, but hidden on the old chocolate bar wrapper is a message. The words scrawled on ...

Venezuelas National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez announced Tuesday that the government will release 300 prisoners ...

A Venezuelan prison director is fired after a week in office following inmate protests over alleged torture, solitary ...

Venezuela's Nobel peace laureate and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Monday that armed men "kidnapped" a close ally shortly after his release by authorities, following ex-leader Nicolas ...

Hundreds of prisoners remain in control of the Barinas Judicial Detention Center for a second day after seizing parts of the facility on Sunday, as protests over alleged systematic torture continue.

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab asked a court on Monday to approve the rearrest of Juan Pablo Guanipa shortly after he was kidnapped by “heavily armed men” in Caracas, as claimed by ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Jesús Armas spent 14 months inside El Helicoide, a notorious prison built on top of a massive rock in the center of the capital Caracas. One of the things that struck him the most ...