Terra co-founder Do Kwon's jail time in Montenegro will be harsh: Report

Do Kwon, presently successful custody successful Montenegro and perchance awaiting extradition to the United States oregon South Korea, volition reportedly look harsh conditions successful the country’s penal system.

According to a March 29 Protos report, an unnamed transgression defence lawyer said conditions astatine Montenegro’s jails and prisons “haven’t changed” from those described successful a 2020 quality rights study from the U.S. State Department. The study cited a lawsuit successful which situation officers had been convicted of torturing and “inflicting grievous bodily harm” connected 11 inmates successful 2015, arsenic good arsenic different “poor” conditions successful immoderate of Montenegro’s prisons owed to overcrowding and deficiency of aesculapian care.

Citing reports from the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the State Department said galore prisoners had been confined to overcrowded cells for astir 23 hours a day, with immoderate reports of unit betwixt inmates. Kwon could beryllium facing “at slightest a year” successful specified conditions arsenic Montenegro considers extradition requests, depending connected the outcome of his transgression case implicit allegedly forged question documents.

“Rooms are 8 meters squared and precise crowded,” the lawyer reportedly said. “There’s astir 10 to 11 radical successful a country — there’s usually not adjacent a bed.“

This is simply a processing story, and further accusation volition beryllium added arsenic it becomes available.