Snapshots of the fortnight (September 2 to 16)

Lilian Tintori (centre), wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, holds a letter by her husband during a press conference in Caracas on September 11. Venezuela's opposition denounced the sentencing of Lopez to nearly 14 years in jail as a tyrannical move by the unpopular ruling Socialists, vowing to redouble their campaign to beat them in December's parliamentary election