SOUGHT FOR FRANCISCO JULIAO
Efforts are being made to secure political asylum for Francisco Juliao, the leader of the peasant leagues in northeast Brazil, who was temporarily released from prison on a writ of habeas corpus September 27,
Arrested in June 1964 during the nationwide witch-hunt conducted by the Castelo Branco dictatorship, he was held in chains and repeatedly tortured, according to an editorial in the September 4 Paris Le Monde.
The well-known peasant leader is now broken in health and his friends are trying to get him abroad, If they do not succeed, he faces a possible 26-year prison term aside from what might be added to this in several trials he still faces,
Negotiations are now being conducted with Chile, Indonesia and Algeria, according to a dispatch in the October 13 Le Monde.
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