Wife of 'El Chapo' files complaint with human rights commission

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, on Monday filed a complaint with Mexico's National Human Rights Commission over the way her husband has been treated in prison.

Coronel Aispuro is the mother of twins she had with Guzman. The complaint alleges Guzman's wife fears her husband will not live to see the month of December and will likely "go insane" beforehand. The former beauty queen married Guzman when she turned 18 in 2008.

Mexican prison officials are causing "imminent and irreparable ... physical, psychological and moral" damage," the complaint adds, El Debate reports.

Guzman's lawyer, José Refugio Rodríguez, said his client wants to be "treated like a human being."

"Joaquin Guzman does not want a five-star hotel, does not want a spa -- Joaquin Guzman wants to be treated like a human being, with the standards set by the United Nations for persons deprived of their liberty," Rodríguez said.

Guzman and his lawyers have repeatedly said the drug lord has been treated poorly while imprisoned. Guzman's allegations have gone so far that he has said he is becoming a "zombie" from lack of sleep -- while his lawyers accuse prison authorities of subjecting Guzman to "physical and mental torture."

Guzman was captured in the city of Los Mochis in his home state of Sinaloa on Jan. 8 after escaping from Mexico's Altiplano Federal Prison on July 11. Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel is credited with dominating the illegal drug market in nearly the entire United States.