Venezuelan activist received death threats: Humberto Prado Sifontes

Index AI : AMR 53/006/2011
Date de publication : 27 juin 2011
Catégorie(s) : Venezuela

The safety of Venezuelan human rights defender Humberto Prado Sifontes, director of the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons (Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones) and his family are seriously at risk following a campaign of intimidation and death threats against him that began in the wake of violent disturbances at El Rodeo Prison in the state of Miranda on 12 June 2011.