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 Vaktin: Forsetakosningar í Bandaríkjunum Erlent Flugslysið sem skók þjóðina og aldrei munu fást svör við Innlent Sakfelldur fyrir þátt í banaslysi en annar ökumaður aldrei fundist Innlent „Við erum ógeðslega sár fyrir hönd barnanna okkar“ Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Hagnast um hálfan milljarð og reiknar með þrefalt meira á næsta ári Innlent Baráttan um Bandaríkin: Hvað gerist eiginlega í nótt? Erlent „Ég var barnið sem vildi ekki taka í höndina á kennaranum sínum“ Innlent Perlan þurfi að seljast fyrir áramót svo dæmið gangi upp Innlent Segja verkfall kennara skapa ójafnræði og óréttlæti Innlent
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 Vaktin: Forsetakosningar í Bandaríkjunum Erlent Flugslysið sem skók þjóðina og aldrei munu fást svör við Innlent Sakfelldur fyrir þátt í banaslysi en annar ökumaður aldrei fundist Innlent „Við erum ógeðslega sár fyrir hönd barnanna okkar“ Innlent Kosningavaktin: Íslendingar ganga að kjörborðinu Innlent Hagnast um hálfan milljarð og reiknar með þrefalt meira á næsta ári Innlent Baráttan um Bandaríkin: Hvað gerist eiginlega í nótt? Erlent „Ég var barnið sem vildi ekki taka í höndina á kennaranum sínum“ Innlent Perlan þurfi að seljast fyrir áramót svo dæmið gangi upp Innlent Segja verkfall kennara skapa ójafnræði og óréttlæti Innlent