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		</div><p>Venezuelan opposition activist Leopoldo Lopez has been returned home after being taken back to jail nearly a week ago. The activist&#8217;s wife Lilian Tintori said on Twitter that she and her husband remain committed to achieving &#8220;peace and freedom for Venezuela&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Lopez was released from prison on July 8 and placed under house arrest after serving three years of a 13-year sentence on charges of inciting violence at opposition rallies. Many human rights groups considered him a political prisoner.</p>
<p>But he was taken back into custody in the middle of the night Tuesday along with former Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma in what many believed was a renewed crackdown on the opposition following the election of delegates to the constitutional assembly.</p>
<p>Some saw his return home as a sign Venezuelan officials may be rethinking the crackdown, even as the new, all-powerful constitutional assembly ousted the defiant chief prosecutor. Cries of &#8220;traitor&#8221; and &#8220;justice&#8221; erupted from the room where 545 pro-government delegates voted on Saturday unanimously to remove Luisa Ortega from her post as the nation&#8217;s top law enforcement official and replace her with a staunch government supporter.</p>
<p>They said they were acting in response to a ruling by the government-stacked Supreme Court, which banned Ms Ortega from leaving the country and froze her bank accounts while it considers criminal charges against her for alleged irregularities.</p>
<p>Ms Ortega, a longtime loyalist who broke with the socialist government in April, refused to recognise the decision and vowed to continue defending the rights of Venezuelans from President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s &#8220;coup&#8221; against the constitution &#8220;with my last breath&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is just a tiny example of what&#8217;s coming for everyone that dares to oppose this totalitarian form of government,&#8221; Ms Ortega said in a statement she signed as chief prosecutor. &#8220;If they&#8217;re doing this to the chief prosecutor, imagine the helpless state all Venezuelans live in.&#8221;</p>
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