Four years in Maduro's prison: A Venezuelan dissident speaks

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Four years in Maduro's prison: A Venezuelan dissident speaks
Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg

When Renzo Prieto was released from prison last month his hair extended to his waist.

After his arrest in 2014, the Venezuelan student leader vowed not to cut it while he remained behind bars -- a protest against his imprisonment for organizing demonstrations against the authoritarian regime of President Nicolas Maduro.

Held more than four years in the menacing Helicoide prison, Prieto, 31, was protected from most physical abuse because he was a political prisoner. But he heard the screams of inmates being tortured, he saw their bruises, cuts and burns and he participated in a 15-day hunger strike demanding freedom.

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