Venezuela attorney general orders rearrest of opposition leader hours after prison release

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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 opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

The abduction was announced by Machado shortly after Guanipa was released from prison on Sunday. The Venezuelan lawyer and opposition figure was among nearly three dozen political prisoners who were freed, but he found himself detained again less than 12 hours after his release.

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