Videos circulating on social media and in local news outlets showed family members sobbing and hugging their loved ones as they were released. Some of the freed detainees leaned on others as they struggled to walk.
It was the first major release of political prisoners since the beginning of Maduro's post-election wave of repression, which advocates say has been the worst in the country's recent history.
Maduro, speaking in a televised broadcast on Monday, instructed the country's judges and Attorney General Tarek William Saab to 'review and rectify' arrests that had occurred since July 28.
The attorney general announced that his office would review 225 cases related to the post-election protests, an action taken with a goal of 'family reunification.'
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