CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities have moved a U.S. filmmaker jailed on espionage charges to a notoriously unruly prison where more than 20 inmates were killed in a 2011 riot, an opposition human rights group said Friday.

Timothy Tracy, a 35-year-old Hollywood producer and actor, was moved Wednesday from the SEBIN secret police lockup in Caracas to El Rodeo prison, said Patricia Andrade, director of the Miami-based Venezuela Awareness Foundation.

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