Meet Víctor Navarro, a Venezuelan journalist, former political prisoner, and a 2023 Oslo Freedom Discussion board speaker.
In 2018, as a 22-year-old, Navarro was arbitrarily detained by the Bolivarian Nationwide Intelligence Service and held in El Helicoide, Venezuela’s largest and most infamous torture heart. He has described the atrocious remedy and torture he endured there, being compelled to defecate in meals trays and having a loaded gun positioned in his mouth. After his launch in 2019, he left for Argentina, the place he now lives in exile.
Regardless of his abhorrent remedy, Navarro has devoted his life to searching for justice for many who have suffered torture and abuse beneath the regime of Nicolas Maduro. He’s the chief director of Voces de la Memoria, an NGO on the intersection of expertise and human rights. Most just lately, Voces de la Memoria created a digital actuality expertise, Helicoide, which, by means of the testimonies of victims, recreates the torturous expertise of an El Helicoide prisoner.
“Maduro is a torture and so are these in his internal circle,” Navarro stated. “There are a whole lot of 1000’s in Venezuela who’re searching for justice. We are able to’t falter in our wrestle for freedom and democracy. If we would like freedom and democracy, there must be justice.
Navarro and different changemakers might be sharing their tales on the Oslo Konserthus stage this June for the fifteenth annual Oslo Freedom Discussion board.
