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Human rights group says Venezuela still operating clandestine jails

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Venezuela is believed to be operating secret prisons even as it moves to reform after the US ouster of Nicolas Maduro, a Washington-based human rights organization said Wednesday.

As US-backed interim president Delcy Rodriguez has begun to release a fraction of the hundreds of political prisoners believed held in Venezuela, alleged secret pre-trial detention centers show the “structural nature” of human rights violations in the country, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said.

The group has not been able to visit Venezuela since 2002.

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