PrintJanuary 2, 2010
Expedite Nobel Peace Prize to Save a Judge's Life
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 should be shared by an Iranian doctor and a Venezuelan judge. The doctor has already been murdered. The judge's life is in danger. Expediting the awards might save her life.On December 10, Venezuelan Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni ordered release on parole of Banker Eligio Cedeno, who had been held in jail for three years by the Chavez regime on currency charges without completion of his trial. Judge Afiuni, 46 years old with eight years' service on the bench, based her decision on explicit provisions of Venezuelan law, as well as a finding by the U.N. Human Rights Council that Cedeno's rights had been violated. The judge was immediately arrested by intelligence police by order of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. She is interned in a prison whose inmates include prisoners she herself sentenced. Chávez called her a "bandit" on national television and said she should be jailed for thirty years, adding that in the "Bolivarian"...(Read Full Article)
