That includes about 50 young people and groups of women who had been held in high security prisons.
The opposition attributed the release to the pressure placed on the regime when the cases were elevated to international courts because almost all the detentions had been arbitrary.
2. Large swaths of Honduras are underwater after tropical storm Sara struck the country last Thursday and through the weekend.
More than 1,700 neighborhoods have been cut off by flooding and destroyed bridges, according to authorities.
Although Sara did not develop into a hurricane, it brought heavy rains and stayed over Honduras for days, leading rivers and lakes to overflow.
