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WORLD NEWS Friday 5 May 2017

Venezuelans again take to streets as death toll jumps to 37

Venezuela, soldiers bathed ward authoritarianism. The student leader’s death
hundreds of student pro- Gunfire erupted at a stu- brought to at least 37 the
testers in tear gas. Many of dent gathering in El Tigre, number killed in Venezu-
the protesters stayed put, a city southeast of Cara- ela’s ongoing political tur-
and medics in gas masks cas, leaving Juan Lopez, moil.
attended to others with 33, dead and three others Earlier Thursday, authori-
bloodied faces and limbs. injured, according to the ties announced a 38-year-
Students from another uni- chief prosecutor’s office. old police officer in the
versity marched peace- According to preliminary central state of Carabobo
fully to deliver a petition reports, an assailant fired had died of his injuries af-
to the office of the coun- at Lopez toward the end of ter being shot during a
try’s Catholic bishops, ask- the meeting and then fled Wednesday protest that
ing the pope to speak out on a motorcycle. Lopez had hundreds of thousands
against the violence and was the president of a uni- of people on the street na-
the government’s steps to- versity federation. tionwide. q

National Police stand ready to launch tear gas at student pro-
testers outside the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas,
Thursday, May 4, 2017. Students held demonstrations across
Caracas Thursday as a two-month-old protest movement that
shows no signs of letting up claimed more lives.
(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

By HANNAH DREIER Thursday as a two-month-
Associated Press old protest movement that
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) shows no signs of letting up
— Students held demon- claimed more lives.
strations across Caracas At the Central University of

8 in Brazil sentenced for planning
attack ahead of 2016 Rio Olympics

PETER PRENGAMAN to 33-year-old Leonid El
MAURICIO SAVARESE Kadre, who authorities said
LUCAS IBERICO LOZADA was the group’s leader.
Associated Press He got 15 years and 10
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A months.
judge in Brazil on Thursday The judge said that El
sentenced eight men for Kadre had three Face-
planning an attack in the book profiles that he used
run up to the 2016 Summer to celebrate terrorist at-
Olympics, marking the first tacks being committed
time that a much debat- in other countries and to
ed anti-terror law formed swear his allegiance to the
the basis of a case in Latin Islamic State.
America’s largest nation. “A Muslim will never be a
Federal Judge Marcos Jo- true believer if he is against
segrei da Silva sentenced Jihad,” or armed struggle,
the men to between 6 and the judge wrote was one
15 years in prison. In the of El Kadre’s most com-
100-page sentence, da mon phrases online.
Silva included screen shots Zaine el Kadri, El Kadre’s
of the men extolling the Is- mother and lawyer, said
lamic State group online, the ruling didn’t prove that
both in their words and im- her son actually commit-
ages. One picture shows ted a crime.
one of the men posing in “They have got nothing on
front of a flag with the Is- him,” she said in a phone
lamic State written on it in interview. “We are going
Arabic. to appeal and get him
The harshest penalty went out.”q