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Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader goes on hunger strike, calls for protest

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Leopoldo LopezJailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has declared himself on hunger strike and called for a protest march next weekend against Venezuela’s socialist government.

Lopez, the best-known opposition activist in custody, was jailed more than a year ago for his role in instigating street protests against President Nicolas Maduro that led to violence killing 43 people and injuring hundreds more.

In a video from Ramo Verde prison where he is being held, Lopez, 44, said he and another jailed politician – former San Cristobal mayor Daniel Ceballos – were going on hunger strike “with one concrete petition: freedom of political prisoners”.

Ceballos was moved from Ramo Verde, outside the capital Caracas, to another jail in the state of Guarico, on Saturday.

In the video message posted on Twitter by his wife at the weekend, Lopez also urged an end to “persecution” of government opponents, the fixing of a date for this year’s parliamentary election and a march against the Maduro government on Saturday.

There was no response from the government to Lopez’s message, though the state ombudsman did say on Twitter he had been disciplined in jail for possessing a mobile phone.

REUTERS/ France 24

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2 responses to “Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader goes on hunger strike, calls for protest”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    ‘WHAT? You let him have a phone .. and he TWEETED?. You will hang by the thumbs for a while ….’

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    Brazilian police arrested on Tuesday, 26 May the Italian Mafia boss who was on the run 30 years, according to Reuters. 56-year-old Pasquale Scotti detained in the city of Recife in a joint operation of Interpol and the Brazilian police.
    Scotty was the boss of the Mafia group Camorra in Naples. Established his guilt in the murder of more than 20 people in 1980. In 1983, it managed to hold. When arrested, skirmish, and the mafiosi was wounded several times. On Christmas Eve 1984, he escaped from the prison hospital, where he was treated.
    Despite the checks of thousands cars and numerous raids on the roads of Italy, carabinieri could not hold escape. In 1991 he was convicted in absentia for the murder of more than 20 people, illegal possession of firearms and extortion.
    In Brazil, mafiosi changed appearance. Detect him was possible thanks to fingerprints, which are compared with 30-year-old. In his new country Scotty led the life of a family man: the police
    arrested him when he was brought to the school his two children.
    The Italian authorities began the process of extradition of detainee

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