Caracas (AFP) - Venezuelan prosecutors Wednesday challenged plans to try suspects in military courts for unrest which saw a statue of late president Hugo Chavez destroyed in protest at the government.
Human rights groups say scores of people have been brought before military courts after being detained in recent weeks of clashes between police and protesters.
The case challenged on Wednesday involves suspects in the northwestern town of Villa del Rosario de Perija, where protesters knocked down the statue and tried to set fire to the town hall.
State prosecutors "requested that the 14 people detained on May 5 suspected of being responsible for the damage caused in the town hall of Villa del Rosario de Perija and on the square there be judged by civil and not military courts," the department said in a statement .... https://www.yahoo.com
