State prosecutors "requested that the 14 people detained on May 5 suspected of being responsible for the damage caused in the town hall of Villa del Rosario de Perija and on the square there be judged by civil and not military courts", the department said in a statement.
An armed militia supporting Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has helped riot police crush protest rallies in the country's capital Caracas as huge numbers of demonstrators continue to demand Maduro's resignation, including by hurling feces at the security forces.
The Venezuelan Public Ministry announced Wednesday that another person had been killed in the wave of anti-government protests that have wracked the oil-producing nation over the past 40 days.
The demonstrations besetting Venezuela, both for and against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, have also left nearly 2,000 under arrest.
Opposition leaders have complained the government is processing 250 detainees via military courts. It has condemned the military trials of hundreds of civilians.
Almost 100 people have been injured in latest clashes with riot police in Venezuela's capital's Caracas alone. He has branded protesters "terrorists" and insurgents.
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Testing also can not take place in construction or school zones and must adhere to a predesignated route shared in advance with the state.
He said 251 of them were sent to military courts for charges such as attacking security forces and "rebellion".
Human rights groups said the military courts were a way to try cases that she had dismissed.
Alfredo Romero, an attorney with Foro Penal, told AFP that numerous detainees were arrested for robbery but face charges such as rebellion and contempt.
Maduro says the crisis is a US-backed capitalist conspiracy against his elected socialist government.
Borges, the president of Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly, traveled to Lima to meet with Peruvian legislators and President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who has been one of the most vocal critics of Maduro among Latin American heads of state. Critics blame Maduro's government as corrupt and incompetent.
"The request I'm bringing to the Peruvian congress and president is that they help us, together with other presidents who we've spoken with, to create a large group of presidents who are friends and proponents of democracy in Venezuela", Borges told Reuters.
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