Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Braulio Jatar completes 3 months in prison in Venezuela as international campaign for his release advances


Ana Julia Jatar shared a photo of her brother Braulio 82 days after he was first imprisoned in Venezuela. His face is gaunt, his once full head of silver hair is shaven and he wears a sad expression on his face. December 3 marked three months since journalist and lawyer Braulio Jatar Alonso was arrested and locked in a Venezuelan prison. During this time, his family and lawyers have denounced not only irregularities in his detention process, but inhumane treatment in prison that has “seriously” affected the journalist’s health. The latest news is that Jatar is suffering from a “presumptive basal cell carcinoma, cancer lesion (skin cancer) that without proper treatment can spread to other tissues and grow in muscles and bones,” according to Jatar’s defense, as published in newspaper El Universo. More…

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