Tamara Suju, a lawyer and human rights defender, denounced that the American political prisoner Matthew Heath attempted suicide. She stressed that due to the situation they transferred him to the Military Hospital, where he is hospitalized in an emergency.
Through the social network Twitter, the director of the Casla Institute reported that “Matthew Heath is hospitalized on the 6th floor of the Military Hospital, after a suicide attempt.” Similarly, Suju recalled the legal status of the US official. She explained that he was arbitrarily detained in 2020 on charges of being an alleged spy.
American attempted suicide
“He was tortured physically, psychologically, and continues to receive white and psychological torture,” Suju said.
Since September 2020, the American had been held in the prison of the Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim), in Boleíta, Caracas. While, as reported We monitor, would be “hospitalized with total secrecy in the Military Hospital from the Saturday«.
Likewise, Tamara Suju indicated that the situation was denounced to “all international bodies, indicated here by the Casla Institute.” Just as she also said that, “he denounced in court the torture to which he was subjected by the Dgcim.”
