• Bolivia Former President Jeanine Áñez, behind bars: "They have me incommunicado"

  • Áñez Four months in preventive detention for the former Bolivian president and her former ministers

The former interim president of Bolivia Jeanine Áñez will be

in prison for at least one year

after a judge extended her preventive detention for six more months on Tuesday, a little more than a week after the ex-president completed five months in prison. in peace.

An

anti-corruption judge in La Paz

determined the preventive detention measure for another six months within the investigations against the temporary ex-president (2019-2020) in the so-called

"Coup d'état" case.

during the political crisis that Bolivia faced in 2019, which resulted in the resignation of Evo Morales from the Presidency.

Luis Guillén

, one of Áñez's lawyers, denounced that the extension of the measure responds to the decision of a criminal investigating judge who "decided to separate the processes (of the coup d'état case) and refer" these antecedents before a judge. anti-corruption.

Guillén indicated that this new measure was taken despite the fact that the defense imposed an

appeal

, which has not yet been answered.

In that sense, the lawyer warned that the jurisdiction of the anti-corruption judge in this case will surely be "subject to review" and of "constitutional protection."

Through her Twitter account, the former temporary president denounced that

"they divide a process to prolong the detention

.

"

"They impose in a precautionary hearing another 6 months of unjust deprivation of liberty, violating human rights and guarantees. Without Justice in #Bolivia there is no democracy. #LiberenaJeanine #Justicia", he affirmed in that social network that is managed by his relatives.

The defense of Áñez has filed, without success, several actions of freedom action to be able to defend himself in freedom.

In mid-July, Jeanine Áñez requested a hearing with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,

Michelle Bachelet

, to explain her prison situation and make her aware of her health situation.

In the letter to Bachelet, Áñez denounced that during her detention she has been "incommunicado" from her relatives, she has suffered from depression which "activated a prevalent arterial hypertension", that she became ill with the kidneys and that her repeated requests for specialized medical attention outside the prison have been "was systematically denied."

Áñez was apprehended on March 13 at her residence in the Amazon department of Beni and is prosecuted for sedition and terrorism, in addition there are other cases open against her for the so-called Sacaba and Senkata massacres in 2019 for which she is accused of genocide.

In addition,

in Parliament there are other accusatory proposals

for the authorization of a loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) without the endorsement of the Legislature, the approval of a decree against freedom of expression and the extension of the concession of the Public Registry Service of Commerce.

Due to the "coup d'état" case, which arose from the complaint of a former parliamentarian of the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS), two of Áñez's former ministers and several former police and military chiefs are also in preventive detention.

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