Jean-Noël René Clair

Arrested and imprisoned in Bulgaria from May 12th to September 18th, 2010 for publishing material on the internet and soliciting men for his films. "On September 13th at 8 p.m. I was released from prison in Plowdiw, a compound infested with rats, vermin, filth, diseases, gratuitous violence, madness ... cells with 10 to 20 persons occasionally. I was transferred to another unit, a 20 square meter shack, which was locked from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. It had neither toilettes nor water, 40°C and no fresh air except through a small window ... you had to piss in a bottle. As I have a phobia of animals I…