Amnesty International Asks Permission to Visit 'El Chapo' Guzman in New York Jail Andrew V. Pestano - UPI
go to original March 31, 2017

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman (L) is shown with an interpreter in this courtroom sketch in the Brooklyn borough of New York City (Reuters)

Amnesty International has asked a federal judge for permission to visit Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán in his jail call in Manhattan to evaluate the conditions in which he is being held.

Among requests, Amnesty International asked U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York Brian M. Cogan to allow Guzmán to have direct contact with his wife, either in person or by telephone, and with public or private defense attorneys so that he can mount an adequate defense without disclosing the content of such contact with the government.

Amnesty International also called for Guzmán to be transferred out of solitary confinement and into the general prison population.

The human rights organization asked Cogan for permission to send an Amnesty International USA researcher to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan to "investigate the conditions of Mr. Guzmán's confinement."

...Earlier in March, Guzmán's lawyers also called for their client to be transferred from solitary confinement to the general prison population. His lawyers said Guzmán is "alone for 23 hours a day" in a "small, windowless cell."

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