Sunday, May 15, 2016
Attorneys representing Jamaican-Panamanian Mayer Mizrachi Matalon, who has been in detention in a Colombian prison since December last year, without being charged, yesterday said they have referred his case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
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| Jamaican-Panamanian Mayer Mizrachi Matalon is flanked by Colombian police on the day he was arerested in Bogota last December. (Photo: La Prensa) |
Lord Gifford, QC, and Caroline Hay explained in a news release that they filed a petition at the IACHR on April 11, 2016 after Panamanian authorities failed to act on a court order instructing that a ‘freedom ticket’ be sent to Colombia for Mizrachi Matalon’s release from La Picota jail in Bogota.
In addition, the attorneys said that a prolonged period of imprisonment would make Mizrachi Matalon vulnerable to serious damage to his health because he has, since early childhood, suffered from a rare health condition.
“I spoke with his Panamanian lawyer this week and he gave me a full report,” Lord Gifford told the Jamaica Observer yesterday. “He has appealed to the Panamanian Supreme Court to get the freedom ticket. It’s completely out of order, it not being issued, and he’s hoping to make some progress there.” In his release yesterday, Lord Gifford said the order for the freedom ticket to be sent to Colombia was handed down by the Second Superior Tribunal in Panama on January 18 this year after it found that there was no evidence that Mizrachi Matalon represented a risk to society, and thus granted him bail.
Mizrachi Matalon, an entrepreneur and expert in secure communications technology, has a Jamaican mother and a Panamanian father. more
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