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Weekly Report - 23 February 2017 (WR-17-07)

VENEZUELA: López marks three years in jail

In September 2015, having spent 18 months in pre-trial detention, the opposition politician Leopoldo López was sentenced to almost 14 years in prison on charges of incitement to violence during fatal anti-government protests in early 2014. The supreme court (TSJ) rejected a final appeal and upheld his sentence last week.

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