The Venezuelan government dropped the murder and terrorism charges against opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, but prosecutors still accused him of arson and conspiracy in a hearing held on Wednesday night, local newspaper El Tiempo reports.
Protests have swept the South American country for more than a week with violent clashes between students and police. Six people are dead as of Friday. Lopez has become one of the faces of the movement, and the Venezuelan government issued a warrant for his arrest, accusing him of instigating the big protests on Feb. 12 that resulted in three deaths.
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