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Venezuela ex-prosecutor speaks out on Lopez 'sham trial'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34656748-----------------------------
On Tuesday, Mr Nieves told Spanish-language news channel CNN en Espanol that "Leopoldo [Lopez] is innocent".
"They jailed him because they fear his leadership," he told CNN's Fernando del Rincon on the programme Conclusiones.
Asked if Mr Lopez should be free, the former prosecutor said: "Yes, indeed, because after examining each and every piece of evidence it was shown that this person had at no point made even a single call to violence."
Mr Nieves said that video footage taken from protests at which Mr Lopez spoke showed him "always calling on his supporters to remain calm".
