Do Kwon, currently detained in Montenegro and potentially awaiting extradition to the United States or South Korea, would face harsh conditions in the country’s prison system.
According to a March 29 Protos report, an anonymous criminal lawyer claimed that lConditions in Montenegro’s jails and prisons “have not changed” from those described in a 2020 US State Department human rights report. The report cited a case in which prison officers were convicted of torturing and “inflicting serious bodily harm” on 11 inmates in 2015, as well as other “poor” conditions in some of Montenegro’s prisons due to overcrowding and lack of of medical care.
Citing reports from the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the State Department said many prisoners had been confined in overcrowded cells for about 23 hours a day, with some reports of inter-inmate violence. Kwon could face “at least a year” in those conditions while Montenegro studies extradition requests, depending on the outcome of his criminal case over alleged forged travel documents.
“The rooms are 8 square meters and are very crowded”said the lawyer. “There are 10-11 people in a room; usually there isn’t even a bed.”
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