Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma in Ramo Verde prison - wife Mitzy Capriles

Record ID: 904876

  • Title: Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma in Ramo Verde prison - wife Mitzy Capriles
  • Date: 1st August 2017
  • Summary: MADRID, SPAIN (AUGUST 1, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** MITZY CAPRILES AT NEWS CONFERENCE AS VIDEO OF STATEMENT RECORDED BY HER HUSBAND ANTONIO LEDEZMA RECORDED BEFORE HE WAS SEIZED BY SECURITY AGENTS IN VENEZUELA IS SCREENED LEDEZMA DURING VIDEO ADDRESS NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS CAPRILES CRYING AS VIDEO SHOWING HOW HER HUSBAND WAS SEIZED BY SECURITY AGENTS ON MONDAY NIGHT IS SCREENED CAPRILES CRYING VARIOUS OF CAPRILES BLOWING HER NOSE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) WIFE OF VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION LEADER ANTONIO LEDEZMA, MITZY CAPRILES, SAYING: "In effect we have knowledge that Antonio is already in the Ramo Verde military prison. Officially we have not found out from the government's mouth, and I am sure we will have a long announcement from the president (Maduro) where he will likely tell us amidst a chain of laughs and dances that he has sent back to prison the Mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, and the opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) WIFE OF VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION LEADER ANTONIO LEDEZMA, MITZY CAPRILES, SAYING: "Lawyers? Lawyers have not been allowed to see Antonio. There has been absolutely no warrant. They don't need a warrant to abruptly take whoever they feel like and we are waiting that at 8pm, Caracas time, they allegedly say they will allow the lawyers to see Antonio." VARIOUS OF NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS CAPRILES LEAVING
  • Embargoed: 15th August 2017 13:21
  • Keywords: Mitzy Capriles Antonio Ledezma arrest Nicolas Maduro Venezuela opposition leaders seized opposition leaders
  • Location: MADRID, SPAIN
  • City: MADRID, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016SBS56V
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:LIVE U QUALITY
    Mitzy Capriles, the wife of one Antonio Ledezma, a Venezuelan opposition leader seized from his home in an overnight raid on Monday (July 31), said her husband had been taken to the Ramo Verde military prison by security officials who also removed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez from his home.
    Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma were both under house arrest, the former for his role in leading street protests against President Nicolas Maduro in 2014 and the latter on charges of plotting a coup.
    Capriles wept as a video showing the moment her husband was seized was screened at a news conference in Madrid.
    Lopez and Ledezma are both former mayors in Caracas, and high-profile critics of Maduro.
    They had called on Venezuelans to join protests over Sunday's (July 30) election of the constituent assembly, which supersedes an opposition-controlled congress that a pro-Maduro Supreme Court had already stripped of its powers.
    At least 10 people were killed in unrest during the vote, which was boycotted by the opposition and criticised around the world as an assault on democratic freedoms.
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