The Bolivian Justice extends the preventive detention of Áñez for three months

A court Bolivian extended this Monday for another three months the preventive detention of the former interim president Jeanine Añez and of two of his former ministers within one of the processes initiated against him at the request of the ruling party due to the 2019 crisis.

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The Tenth Criminal Investigation Judge Armando Zeballos decided to extend “for a period of three months” the preventive detention of Áñez and her former ministers Álvaro Coímbra and Rodrigo Guzmán, in a virtual hearing held on this day and that lasted for several hours Until the night.

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The request for extension of the detention was made by two of the accusers in this case: the Ministry of Government (Interior) and the State Attorney General’s Office.

A new hearing to consider the legal situation of the three investigated was set for next May 16, added the magistrate.

At the end of the hearing, the message “They continue to punish me at the pleasure of my executioners” appeared on the social networks of the former interim president, managed by her relatives. The case of terrorism does not exist, they prove nothing since they kidnapped me”.

“I am innocent and a political prisoner for 11 months. Instead of giving me back my freedom, they have extended my sentence for another three months. I continue my strike against (In)Justice”, adds the publication.

The former president and her former ministers have been imprisoned for eleven months for the case called “coup d’état I”, in which they are accused of sedition, terrorism and conspiracy for the 2019 post-election crisis that led to the resignation of then President Evo Morales .

The ruling party maintains that Morales’ resignation was the product of an alleged coup d’état, while his detractors assure that it was the consequence of allegations of alleged electoral fraud in his favor in the failed general elections of 2019, later annulled.

KEEPS THE STRIKE

Áñez began a hunger strike thirteen days ago before the start of the trial for another process, the so-called “coup d’état II”, referring to her actions when she was second vice president of the Senate to assume the presidency in 2019 in an allegedly irregular manner, according to the ruling party, after the resignations of Morales and the entire line of presidential succession.

The former president’s health has deteriorated again as a result of this measure, in which she assured that it will continue to be considered a “political prisoner” of the Luis Arce government.

“At a minimum, I would deserve a judgment of responsibilities, that is why I am on the 13th day of the hunger strike and I am not going to lift it, even if it costs me my life, but that this sacrifice that I am making can serve so that other Bolivians find the justice that I I haven’t found it so far,” Áñez said during the hearing held on this day.

The former president asked the judge “to comply with the norm” and assured that it was not appropriate to extend her detention, since it was not her responsibility that the Public Ministry “has not carried out all the corresponding actions in almost a year” of imprisonment.

Last Friday, groups related to the ruling party prevented Áñez from being transferred to a hospital ordered by a judge, who later decided that she receive medical care inside the prison.

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Source: Elcomercio

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