Caracas, Venezuela, Nov 17, 2011 / 16:29 pm
The Venezuelan bishops expressed concern for the health of reporter Leocenis Garcia, who has been on a hunger strike for more than week in protest of his imprisonment.
“We pray that this situation be resolved without injury that good sense would prevail among all those involved in this case,” the bishops' committee on justice and peace said Nov. 16.
Garcia, editor and journalist for the newspaper 6to Poder, began a hunger strike on Nov. 9 to protest what he says is political persecution for criticizing President Hugo Chavez.
In a statement signed by Archbishop Roberto Luckert of Coro, the committee encouraged Venezuelan officials to “thoughtfully consider the reasons for the hunger strike.”