CARACAS, Venezuela >> Hundreds of people gathered several days ago outside a detention center known as “Zone 7” in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, huddled around lists of prisoners, as they clutched plastic bags filled with meals they had packed for the inmates inside.

Eager for information about their detained loved ones, many told remarkably similar stories of sons, daughters and siblings arrested riding motorbikes, walking home from work, coming out of a bakery or stopping by a relative’s house.

The Venezuelan government has mounted a furious campaign against anyone challenging the declared results of the vote, human rights groups say.

People were taken both in roundups, amid the protests, and later from their homes as the government launched what it called “Operation Knock-Knock,” according to interviews with family members and human rights activists documenting the detentions.

— The New York Times