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Venezuela opposition mayor gets one-year jail sentence over protests
Source: Reuters
Venezuela opposition mayor gets one-year jail sentence over protests
CARACAS Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:11am EDT
(Reuters) - Venezuela's top court has sentenced the mayor of the city of San Cristobal to a year in jail for failing to break up anti-government protests, extending a crackdown of opposition leaders associated with nearly two months of demonstrations.
The Supreme Court ruling issued late on Tuesday determined that Daniel Ceballos disobeyed an earlier court order that his administration remove barricades set up by protesters demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro.
Demonstrators since early February have routinely used debris and burning trash to block the streets of San Cristobal, a city in the western Andes region near Colombia.
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Ceballos, who has condemned violence but openly supported the protests, was also stripped of his post.
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CARACAS Wed Mar 26, 2014 11:11am EDT
(Reuters) - Venezuela's top court has sentenced the mayor of the city of San Cristobal to a year in jail for failing to break up anti-government protests, extending a crackdown of opposition leaders associated with nearly two months of demonstrations.
The Supreme Court ruling issued late on Tuesday determined that Daniel Ceballos disobeyed an earlier court order that his administration remove barricades set up by protesters demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro.
Demonstrators since early February have routinely used debris and burning trash to block the streets of San Cristobal, a city in the western Andes region near Colombia.
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Ceballos, who has condemned violence but openly supported the protests, was also stripped of his post.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/26/us-venezuela-protests-idUSBREA2P18220140326
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