Lawyer Says Venezuelan Government Foe Ceballos Moved to Violent Prison

Venezuelan authorities have transferred a jailed opposition leader, considered by government opponents to be among the country’s most prominent political prisoners, to a notoriously violent penitentiary, his lawyer said on Saturday. Daniel Ceballos was sentenced to a year in prison in early 2014 for refusing to break up antigovernment protests and had been held in a military stockade just outside of Caracas with Leopoldo Lopez, a former presidential candidate and leader of their opposition Popular Will party. Venezuelan authorities didn’t respond to a call on Saturday about the alleged move of Mr. Ceballos. More…