The International Network for the Freedom of Milagro Sala reiterated the request to President Alberto Fernández to use “the legal mechanisms available” to release the social leader from Jujuy who has been detained for almost seven years, despite the fact that the head of state had warned that the National Constitution “prohibits him from pardoning sentences handed down by provincial courts.”
This was stated by the Network made up of Argentine, Brazilian, Canadian, Spanish, American, Finnish, French, Italian, English, Swedish and Swiss citizens, through a letter sent to the head of state this Wednesday.
“A few days to complete seven years of illegal detention of Milagro Sala and his companions and hopeful for your commitment to use the legal mechanisms available to facilitate your immediate release, we write to you to remind you that this request has had significant international support,” they argued in the document to which Télam had access.
In mid-December, heThe Supreme Court of Justice upheld the 13-year sentence of prison imposed on Milagro Sala in the “Pibes Villeros” case, in which she was accused of “illicit association” and “defrauding the State”, a ruling that the social leader from Jujuy rejected because it was issued by a court that responds ” on the right”.
In this sense, from the Internet highlighted the beginning of the political trial of the members of the Supreme Court of Justice as “another step” on the path to “finishing the basements of democracy”, referring to the presidential inauguration speech delivered by Fernández in December 2019.
THE FREEDOM OF MIRACLE ANOTHER STEP TO END THE BASEMENTS OF DEMOCRACY
The @RedMilagro International for the Freedom of Milagro Sala sent a letter to Alberto Fernández where he reiterated the request for an end to the persecution of the social leader [https://t.co/y3yRcqqwrs]– International Network for the Freedom of Milagro Sala (@RedMilagro) January 5, 2023
“In Argentina and in the world we look forward to fulfilling his promise to human rights organizations and Milagro is released before January 16, 2023,” They added in the letter, referring to the date on which the Jujuy leader will have been detained for seven years.
They also remembered the international support received by Sala from leaders such as Evo Morales (Bolivia), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil), Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela) and Justin Trudeau (Canada), among other political figures from around the world.
In addition, they indicated that “an international delegation of lawyers visited Milagro Sala and other detainees of the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Organization in June 2018” and “concluded that The continued detention of Milagro Sala and the other prisoners violated basic legal principles and they asked for their release.”
Various organizations also presented before the Supreme Court requests for intervention as amicus curae in the case known as “village kids” and “great international artists” participated in the international festival “A Song for a Miracle”, the text details.
For his part, in an interview he gave to FM Radio Con Vos, President Alberto Fernández maintained that the National Constitution prohibits him from issuing a pardon in the case of the social leader Milagro Sala and explained that the person who has this power is the governor of Jujuy, Gerardo Morales, given that they are decisions of the provincial justice.
The Head of State said that “with great regret” he had to say that the Constitution prohibits him from using the pardon in cases like Sala’s: “I am a man of law and I cannot violate the Constitution”, held.
