The case of Jesus Soriano: Fake or Tortured?

January 19, 2003

On Friday, lost in the noise of the confiscation of the soda and water plants, a student who had been jailed for two days said that he was tortured, shared a cell with the assasin from Altamira and was denied his rights. The whole country saw the guy on TV with head injuries, bruises all over the body, huge one in his eye, clipped nails, skin removed from his fingers, kidny problems and needle marks in his arms.


Yesterday, the head of the intelligence police said this was all done to attack the intelligence police and that the student “arrived at the intelligence police in a very bad state, with injuries in the face and all over the body”


Today, Asdrubal Aguiar, former Human Rights judge of the OAS, tells the head of the intelligence police that if it were true that the prisoner arrived in such bad shape, Venezuelan law requires that he should have been examined by a Doctor in the presence of a representative from the Attorney General’s office and sent to a Hospital. Instead, he was kept as a prisoner for 48 hours and was only taken to a hospital when he was realeased by the order of a judge.


 The Government thinks we are stupid

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