
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said her opposition colleague Juan Pablo Guanipa had been kidnapped just hours after being released from detention, the BBC reports.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner said on Sunday that Guanipa, the leader of the "First Justice" party, was taken in the Los Chorros neighborhood of the capital Caracas.
"Heavily armed men dressed in civilian clothes arrived in four vehicles and took her by force," she wrote on social media.
A former vice president of the National Assembly, Guanipa spent eight months in prison and was among several political prisoners released since the US captured Venezuela's former president, Nicolas Maduro, on January 3.
His center-right party said Guanipa was kidnapped by "repressive forces of the dictatorship" while he was moving from one location to another.
"We hold Delcy Rodríguez, Jorge Rodríguez and Diosdado Cabello responsible for any harm to the life of Juan Pablo," the Justice First party wrote on social media, referring to Venezuela's interim president, the speaker of the National Assembly and the interior minister, respectively.