Overview
- Yaacob Harary says he was freed roughly 12 days ago after spending 15 months and three days in Venezuela’s El Rodeo I prison.
- He reports being accused without evidence of terrorism and claims foreign prisoners were treated as bargaining chips in government dealings.
- He describes cramped, unsanitary cells, scarce water and poor food, alleging prolonged illness and lasting lung damage without adequate care.
- He alleges a sham legal process with no clear charges, restricted defense rights, and prison paperwork that assigned him a false identity.
- He says guards regularly filmed him during meals as “proofs of life,” and he urges attention to those still held, including partner Douglas Ochoa, whom he says attempted suicide, and Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo.