February 20, 2014 | Staff Venezuelan political opposition leader and founder of the Popular Will Party, Leopoldo López, will spend the next 45 days in the Ramo Verde jail in Los Teques. During that time, the Public Prosecutors Office will decide whether it seeks to convict him of the alleged planning of the violent incidents that happened after the opposition rally on February 12 in the center of Caracas. Judge Ralenis Tovar Guillén delivered the detention measure today at 1:00 a.m. inside the military prison where López is held. She made use of a mobile court unit basically a bus repurposed to function as a court of law, allegedly to protect the life and integrity of the accused, as stated by the prosecution. Guillén dismissed the objection of Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, Lópezs lawyer. According to Gutiérrez, the judges decision violates legal and constitutional dispositions of due process: the audience should have taken place in a proper court of law. The prosecutor is accusing López, among other charges, of criminal association, an offense penalized by the Organic Law Against Organized Crime and the Financing of Terrorism with 10 years of prison. Source (Translated from): El Universal. (http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional...e-carcel-pide-la-fiscalia-para-leopoldo-lopez) Read more: http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2014/02/20/venezuela-leopoldo-lopez-faces-10-years-in-prison/ I wonder how long Leopoldo Lopez will live after this kangaroo court has e got to hand it to Mr. Lopez made it's illegal decision. I've got to hand it to the brave Lopez. He's making himself a martyr. Knowing the ideology of this Communist Group he will die of "natural causes" in their care.
