CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan security authorities seized two resistance pioneers from their homes in overnight assaults, their families said on Tuesday, after they asked challenges another authoritative superbody generally reviled as hostile to vote based.
Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma were both under house capture, the previous for his part in driving road challenges President Nicolas Maduro in 2014 and the last on charges of plotting an overthrow.
"12:27 in the morning: the minute when the autocracy captures Leopoldo at my home," Lopez's better half Lilian Tintori composed on Twitter.
She presented a connection on a video that seemed to demonstrate Lopez being driven into a vehicle embellished with the word Sebin, Venezuela's knowledge organization.
The Information Ministry did not instantly react to an email looking for input.
Lopez and Ledezma are both previous chairmen in Caracas, and prominent faultfinders of Maduro.
They had approached Venezuelans to join dissents over Sunday's race of the constituent get together, which supersedes a restriction controlled congress that a genius Maduro Supreme Court had effectively stripped of its forces.
No less than 10 individuals were murdered in distress amid the vote, which was boycotted by the restriction and scrutinized far and wide as an ambush on vote based opportunities.
"They have grabbed @leopoldolopez on the grounds that he basically would not break under the weights and bogus guarantees of the administration," composed Freddy Guevara, an official from Lopez's Popular Will party.
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Vanessa Ledezma said she considered Maduro in charge of what happened to her dad.
"The Sebin just took him," she composed on Twitter, posting a video of insight operators taking Ledezma, who was wearing night wear.
He was conceded house capture in 2015 in the wake of being detained on charges of driving an overthrow against Maduro.
Lopez was conceded house capture in July following three years in jail for his part in against government road challenges in 2014. His discharge was viewed as a noteworthy leap forward in the nation's political standoff.
Lopez's legal counselor, Juan Gutierrez, composed on Twitter that "there is no legitimate avocation to disavow the house capture measure."
