Venezuela releases dozens of political prisoners as election calls grow
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Prisoner releases and free elections were two key pledges made to the US by the new administration Venezuelan authorities have released a slew of political prisoners, human rights groups say, days after the nation's interim leader met US President Donald Trump in New York.
释放囚犯和自由选举是新政府向美国做出的两项关键承诺 人权组织称，委内瑞拉临时领导人在纽约会见美国总统唐纳德·特朗普几天后，当局释放了大批政治犯。
Among those released in the early hours of Saturday morning was Wilder Vasquez, who was handed a five-year sentence in 2018 over claims he was plotting to kill former President Nicolás Maduro.
周六凌晨获释的人中有怀尔德·巴斯克斯 (Wilder Vasquez)，他因涉嫌密谋刺杀前总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗 (Nicolás Maduro) 而于 2018 年被判处五年徒刑。
Opposition figures have renewed calls for free elections after interim President Delcy Rodriguez held talks with Trump, who captured Maduro earlier this year, at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
临时总统德尔西·罗德里格斯周二在联合国大会上与今年早些时候抓获马杜罗的特朗普举行会谈后，反对派人士再次呼吁自由选举。
Her administration previously released hundreds of prisoners as part of a reconciliation effort following Maduro's seizure.
她的政府此前释放了数百名囚犯，作为马杜罗被捕后和解努力的一部分。
However, these releases slowed to a trickle in April after Rodriguez said the scheme was "coming to an end".
然而，在罗德里格斯表示该计划“即将结束”后，这些释放在四月份减慢了。
Venezuela's government has not made any statement concerning the latest releases, nor has it indicated whether they were the result of her conversation with the US president.
委内瑞拉政府尚未就最新发布的内容发表任何声明，也没有表明这些内容是否是她与美国总统对话的结果。
Gonzalo Himiob, vice-president of rights group Foro Penal, said "a significant number" of political prisoners had been released on Saturday morning from several of Venezuela's detention centres.
人权组织 Foro Penal 副主席贡萨洛·希米奥布 (Gonzalo Himiob) 表示，周六上午，委内瑞拉的几个拘留中心释放了“大量”政治犯。
Rights groups critical as Venezuela prisoner release scheme 'coming to an end' US lifts sanctions on Venezuelan interim leader Delcy Rodríguez Venezuelan prison director sacked as inmates allege mistreatment Foro Penal confirmed the release of Miguel Castillo Cedeño, who it said had been arbitrarily detained since June 2019.
委内瑞拉囚犯释放计划“即将结束”，人权组织提出批评 美国解除对委内瑞拉临时领导人德尔西·罗德里格斯的制裁 委内瑞拉监狱长因囚犯指控虐待而被解雇 Foro Penal 证实米格尔·卡斯蒂略·塞德尼奥 (Miguel Castillo Cedeño) 已获释，据称他自 2019 年 6 月以来一直被任意拘留。
Also released was Frank Cabañas, who rights groups say had been held in prison for nine years after being linked to the death of a police officer.
弗兰克·卡瓦尼亚斯（Frank Cabañas）也被释放，人权组织称，他因与一名警察之死有关而被关押在监狱里九年。
Foro Penal said he was the only suspect who remained detained, despite family members reporting that he was suffering health problems last year.
刑事法庭表示，尽管他的家人报告说他去年出现了健康问题，但他是唯一仍被拘留的嫌疑人。
Opposition and human rights groups have said Maduro's government used the detention of political prisoners to stamp out dissent and silence critics for years.
反对派和人权组织表示，马杜罗政府多年来利用拘留政治犯来消除异议并压制批评者。
Rodriguez has sought to frame her interim government as more permissive of political dissent while currying favour with the US.
罗德里格斯试图将她的临时政府塑造得更加宽容政治异见，同时讨好美国。
The prisoner release scheme was a key concession by her administration to the US. However, her decision to end the scheme attracted criticism from opposition and rights groups.
囚犯释放计划是她的政府对美国做出的一项重要让步。 然而，她终止该计划的决定引起了反对派和人权组织的批评。
Foro Penal said it was stopped with less than half of the nation's political prisoners released.
刑事论坛表示，该行动已停止，全国只有不到一半的政治犯被释放。
Rodriguez's government continues to deny dissidents are jailed. It has cast the release of prisoners as a gesture of goodwill and reconciliation.
罗德里格斯政府继续否认异见人士被监禁。 它把释放囚犯视为善意与和解的姿态。
Delcy Rodríguez's meeting with Donald Trump in New York has brought renewed calls for elections in Venezuela Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, a minister closely associated with Maduro's authoritarian rule, called the interim president's meeting with Trump "a great triumph of the diplomacy of peace". But opposition voices expressed their disapproval over the meeting, viewing it as a snub of their calls – that the US has previously endorsed – for swift elections.
德尔西·罗德里格斯在纽约与唐纳德·特朗普的会面再次引发了委内瑞拉大选的呼声 与马杜罗独裁统治关系密切的委内瑞拉内政部长迪奥斯达多·卡韦略称临时总统与特朗普的会晤是“和平外交的伟大胜利”。 但反对派人士表达了对这次会议的不满，认为这是对他们要求迅速举行选举的呼吁 — — 美国此前已对此表示支持 — — 的冷落。
Pedro Mario Burelli, a former Venezuelan state oil company executive and opposition commentator, called the two world leaders "the shameless puppet and her unscrupulous and undignified puppet-master", adding: "Little has changed in Venezuela under Washington's clumsy and selective oversight." Venezuela's last elections, held in 2024, in which Maduro was declared the winner, were widely disputed as rigged.
委内瑞拉国家石油公司前高管、反对派评论员佩德罗·马里奥·布雷利(Pedro Mario Burelli)称这两位世界领导人是“无耻的傀儡和她不择手段、没有尊严的傀儡主人”，并补充道：“在华盛顿笨拙和选择性的监督下，委内瑞拉几乎没有发生任何变化。” 委内瑞拉上一次选举于 2024 年举行，马杜罗被宣布获胜，但该选举被广泛争议为舞弊。
Opposition tallies suggested their candidate, who stood after Machado was barred from running, had won by 70% of the vote.
反对派统计显示，在马查多被禁止参选后站出来的候选人以 70% 的选票获胜。
Despite this, the Trump administration backed Rodriguez, Maduro's former vice-president, as his successor rather than opposition leader María Corina Machado after Maduro was seized and put on trial on drug charges in January.
尽管如此，在马杜罗于一月份因毒品指控被捕并接受审判后，特朗普政府支持马杜罗的前副总统罗德里格斯作为他的继任者，而不是反对派领导人玛丽亚·科里纳·马查多。
Analysts at the time cast this decision as the US choosing short-term stability in Venezuela until elections could be held.
当时的分析人士认为，这一决定是美国选择在委内瑞拉举行选举之前实现短期稳定。
Rodriguez used her UN General Assembly speech on Thursday to reiterate that there "will be elections in Venezuela", without specifying when.
罗德里格斯周四在联合国大会演讲中重申“委内瑞拉将举行选举”，但没有具体说明何时举行。
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