Lorent Saleh

Lorent Saleh
Saleh in 2019
Born
Lorent Enrique Gómez Saleh

(1988-07-22) 22 July 1988 (age 36)
San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela
OccupationActivist
AwardsSakharov Prize (2017)

Lorent Enrique Gómez Saleh (born 22 July 1988)[1] is a Venezuelan activist. Since 2011, Saleh has participated in several activities in defense of human rights and has been repeatedly detained by the Venezuelan authorities. In 2014, he was deported from Colombia and handed over to officials of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN). Until 2018, he was being held in La Tumba, in Plaza Venezuela, Caracas, during which time his hearing had been postponed 52 times.[2] On 12 October 2018, he was released by the Venezuelan authorities and exiled to Spain, where he arrived the next day after landing at the Madrid–Barajas Airport.[3]

In 2017, Saleh was one of eight Venezuelans awarded with the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament, as one of the representatives of all the political prisoners enumerated by the Foro Penal.[4]

  1. ^ "Biography". Lorent Saleh's personal blog. 15 August 2015. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Lorent Saleh cumplió este martes cuatro años detenido" [Lorent Saleh served four years in detention on Tuesday]. El Nacional (in Spanish). 4 September 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  3. ^ Castro, Maolis (13 October 2018). "El Gobierno de Maduro destierra a España a un líder estudiantil opositor" [The Maduro Government banishes an opposition student leader to Spain]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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