Áñez denounces “psychological torture” when she completes 12 days of hunger strike

The former interim president of bolivia Jeanine Añez denounced this Sunday that he suffers “psychological torture” by officials of the prison where she is being held as a result of the hunger strike she is holding for her freedom 12 days ago.

Añez He spoke during a virtual hearing for the release action that his daughter Carolina Ribera presented against the officials of the Miraflores Women’s Penitentiary Center and that was finally denied.

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“I suffer psychological torture, because I am on a hunger strike”, manifested.

The former president told the judge that after a previous hearing last Friday, which authorized her transfer to a medical center and was later revoked, she suffered several nervous breakdowns due to prison officials and doctors who tried to make an assessment that she resisted.

In that recall, the judge ordered “make effective (…), even against the will of the plaintiff” the immediate start of a “rehydration treatment or others” to in order to be cared for inside the prison.

This provoked a claim from the Ombudsman’s Office, which asserted that the right to Añez to the protest through the strike “must be respected” and that that determination contradicted him.

At the hearing this Sunday, Añez clarified that finally the doctors did not commit any “imposture“despite warning him that this assessment”it was not optional and that they left “when they saw the crisis” that they had caused him.

In a statement, the Penitentiary Regime Directorate stated that “despite initially refusing”, Añez “agreed” to put on a “intravenous rehydration solution”something that she did not confirm at the hearing.

Even the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in a statement on Twitter about the situation of Añez warned that “any medical treatment or forced feeding could amount to torture or ill-treatment.”

Besides that in case of an urgent transfer “The State is responsible for preserving public order to guarantee the safety of that person and enforce the judicial provision.”

Precisely on Friday, after the authorization resolution for Añez receives care outside the prison, a group of protesters related to the Government stationed themselves at the entrances of the compound to prevent the former head of state from leaving and complying with the court order.

At the hearing this Sunday, Añez She also denounced that in the prison there is an instruction so that the door of the cell she occupies is deliberately open to “smell” food that is prepared in the kitchen.

The former president has been in preventive detention since March of last year and two criminal proceedings weigh on her, the cases “coup d’état I and II” in which it is affirmed, according to the ruling party, that she was illegally placed in the line of constitutional succession to later assume the Presidency of the country.

Añez She was the second vice president of the Senate when then-president Evo Morales resigned from his post, followed by the vice president and the presidents of the Upper House and the Chamber of Deputies.

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Source: Elcomercio

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