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'El Chapo' Guzman: No outdoor exercise, judge rules [View all]
Source: BBC
'El Chapo' Guzmán: No outdoor exercise, judge rules
4 June 2019
A judge in New York has denied a request by convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, known as "El Chapo", to be allowed to exercise outdoors two hours a week.
The judge argued the request could be a ruse by Guzmán to try and escape from his New York jail.
Guzmán escaped twice from maximum security prisons in Mexico.
He was found guilty of drug trafficking in February and is due to be sentenced on 25 June.
'Cruel and unusual punishment'
Guzmán is being held in solitary confinement at a high-security prison in Manhattan, where he was taken in January 2017 after Mexico extradited him to face charges of trafficking huge amounts of cocaine, methamphetamines and heroin to the US.
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4 June 2019
A judge in New York has denied a request by convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, known as "El Chapo", to be allowed to exercise outdoors two hours a week.
The judge argued the request could be a ruse by Guzmán to try and escape from his New York jail.
Guzmán escaped twice from maximum security prisons in Mexico.
He was found guilty of drug trafficking in February and is due to be sentenced on 25 June.
'Cruel and unusual punishment'
Guzmán is being held in solitary confinement at a high-security prison in Manhattan, where he was taken in January 2017 after Mexico extradited him to face charges of trafficking huge amounts of cocaine, methamphetamines and heroin to the US.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48511420
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