Significant number of prisoners, including foreigners, to be freed: Venezuela's top lawmaker

​Venezuela's top lawmaker Jorge Rodriguez said on ​Thursday that a ‌significant number ⁠of both foreign ‌and Venezuelan prisoners will be freed in the coming hours.

The ​liberations, a repeated demand of the country's opposition, ‌are ‌a gesture of peace, Rodriguez ⁠said, adding the action was unilateral and not ⁠agreed ⁠with any other ‌party.

“The Bolivarian ‌government, together with state institutions, has decided to ‍release a significant number of Venezuelan and foreign individuals, and these release processes are taking place as ​of ‌this very moment,” Rodriguez added.