Icelander's Brazil Prison Ordeal 25. ágúst 2006 10:37 Hlynur Smári Sigurðsson, a 23 year old Icelander has been in a Brazilian prison in Porto Segurio for three months now for attempting to smuggle two kilos of cocaine from the country. His case has still not been tried and he has described his life as a constant living nightmare these days. "Every day I have to fight for my life. The first day I got here I was attacked by a prisoner with a knife who wanted to steal my cigarettes." Hlynur says that prisoners are drugged to slow them down, that the prison is digustingly dirty and that everyone is infected with lice. " We only have dirty water and worm-infested bread to eat. " He says that he cannot sleep at night for fear of being killed. " The thought of my young son, my family and friends back home keep me going, " Sigurðsson then dissolved into tears when speaking to a Fréttablaðið journalist. " Apparently I need lots of money to get my case before court. That's how things work in this country." His case is being looked into by the Icelandic Foreign Ministry but there are no extradition agreements between Brazil and Iceland. Another Icelander is currently in a prison in Sao Paolo for trying to smuggle twelve kilos of hash to Brazil. News News in English Mest lesið Árásarmaðurinn ölvaður Íslendingur Innlent Ráðist á rútubílstjóra og vegfarendur yfirbuguðu árásarmanninn Innlent Hættu leit eftir þrjá tíma að þeim sem féll útbyrðis úr Norrænu Erlent „Samfélagsleg ábyrgð þessa fyrirtækis virðist ekki vera nein“ Innlent Formaður og gjaldkeri Vorstjörnunnar kærð fyrir efnahagsbrot Innlent Krefst aðkomu Vinstri grænna að endurmótun varnarmálastefnu Innlent Rektorar allra íslenskra háskóla lýsa yfir miklum áhyggjum Innlent Ekki gagnlegt að stilla fyrirtækjum upp gegn starfsfólki Innlent Mikil reiði á Þingeyri vegna flutnings fóðurstöðvar Arctic Fish Innlent Sæta lögreglurannsókn vegna níðsöngva um ísraelska herinn Erlent
Hlynur Smári Sigurðsson, a 23 year old Icelander has been in a Brazilian prison in Porto Segurio for three months now for attempting to smuggle two kilos of cocaine from the country. His case has still not been tried and he has described his life as a constant living nightmare these days. "Every day I have to fight for my life. The first day I got here I was attacked by a prisoner with a knife who wanted to steal my cigarettes." Hlynur says that prisoners are drugged to slow them down, that the prison is digustingly dirty and that everyone is infected with lice. " We only have dirty water and worm-infested bread to eat. " He says that he cannot sleep at night for fear of being killed. " The thought of my young son, my family and friends back home keep me going, " Sigurðsson then dissolved into tears when speaking to a Fréttablaðið journalist. " Apparently I need lots of money to get my case before court. That's how things work in this country." His case is being looked into by the Icelandic Foreign Ministry but there are no extradition agreements between Brazil and Iceland. Another Icelander is currently in a prison in Sao Paolo for trying to smuggle twelve kilos of hash to Brazil.
News News in English Mest lesið Árásarmaðurinn ölvaður Íslendingur Innlent Ráðist á rútubílstjóra og vegfarendur yfirbuguðu árásarmanninn Innlent Hættu leit eftir þrjá tíma að þeim sem féll útbyrðis úr Norrænu Erlent „Samfélagsleg ábyrgð þessa fyrirtækis virðist ekki vera nein“ Innlent Formaður og gjaldkeri Vorstjörnunnar kærð fyrir efnahagsbrot Innlent Krefst aðkomu Vinstri grænna að endurmótun varnarmálastefnu Innlent Rektorar allra íslenskra háskóla lýsa yfir miklum áhyggjum Innlent Ekki gagnlegt að stilla fyrirtækjum upp gegn starfsfólki Innlent Mikil reiði á Þingeyri vegna flutnings fóðurstöðvar Arctic Fish Innlent Sæta lögreglurannsókn vegna níðsöngva um ísraelska herinn Erlent