Víctor Navarro is a

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

n journalist, human rights activist, and former political prisoner. He now operates a human rights NGO, ''Voces de la Memoria'', and developed a virtual reality experience of the human rights abuses Venezuelan

political prisoner A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although ...

s face.

Biography

Navarro had worked as a journalist in

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

while completing his university thesis. Due to his writings critical of the Maduro government, he was arbitrarily detained in 2018 at the age of 22 and held in

El Helicoide El Helicoide is a building in Caracas, Venezuela owned by the Venezuelan government and used as a facility and prison for both regular and political prisoners of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEB ...

, Venezuela's clandestine torture facility. He underwent physical and psychological abuse, but was able to secure his release when, under duress, he affirmed Maduro was the legitimate president of Venezuela. He then fled for

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where he now lives as an exile. He is the executive director of ''Voces de la Memoria'', an NGO focused on integrating technology for human rights activism. Most recently, ''Voces de la Memoria'' developed ''Helicoide'', a

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a Simulation, simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video gam ...

experience, which recreates the torturous experience of political prisoner's in El Helicoide.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Navarro, Víctor Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Venezuelan human rights activists Venezuelan journalists Venezuelan exiles Political prisoners during the Bolivarian Revolution Venezuelan prisoners and detainees Journalists imprisoned in Venezuela

Biography

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