The seven people detained in the framework of a protest and repression last Thursday in the Jujuy city of San Pedro, led by the Piquetero Struggle Front, were released after a resolution of the provincial Justice.
They are Facundo Flores (19), Marcos Lucas Saravia (21), Daniel David Flores (41), Miguel Ángel Sánchez (59), Cecilia Corregidor (36), Alcira Zúñiga (53) and Yamila Zúñiga (27), who remained for six days housed in different dependencies of the Penitentiary Service of Jujuy, accused of injuring police officers.
Control Judge Rodolfo Fernández resolved on Wednesday afternoon the “immediate freedom” of those imprisoned and imprisoned who were deprived of their liberty in the Barrio Gorriti and Alto Comedero prisons, respectively.
In the last hours, the Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla Cortiexpressed his concern for “the delay of justice” that is verified in Jujuy with demonstrators, among whom there is a pregnant woman, who were arrested on March 3.
“The delay of Justice in ordering the release of detainees, especially pregnant women, is more like a form of discipline than what normally happens when it comes to minor crimes,” Pietragalla Corti remarked during a meeting that held in Jujuy with relatives of the detainees and social organizations.
“The delay of Justice in ordering the release of detainees, especially pregnant women, is more like a form of discipline than what normally happens when it comes to minor crimes”
For their part, leaders of piqueteros and human rights organizations organized a series of protest activities against the “illegal” detention of the seven people detained by the police.
“They are hostages of the governor’s adjustment policy, because what he wants is to intimidate the organizations, but also the workers who are fighting for their rights.yes,” he had said the leader of the Polo Obrero Eduardo Belliboniand stated that “popular kitchens have been left without food as a result of this adjustment policy.”
He also indicated that there was “a worrying situation” because “they had been detained in different prisons for almost a week and were tortured by the police.”
Last Thursday, at least 15 people were arrested and several policemen and demonstrators were injured by a protest by the Piquetero Struggle Front who carried out roadblocks in San Pedro, Perico, La Quiaca and other localities in the framework of a “provincial picket attack” to demand food for the picnic areas and dining rooms.
The next day, seven of the demonstrators (four men and three women) were charged with “minor injuries and serious injuries, both aggravated against members of the police forces in ideal competition, with attack and resistance to authority in ideal competition and obstruction of transport and services in real competition,” according to the file that is processed in the Public Ministry of the Accusation.
“This does not take place in a serene sea where there is a radicalized group that does something, but there is a social struggle in Argentina that is beginning to spread and that has to do with the politics of the provincial and national governments, which are policies of adjustment against those who have less,” said Belliboni.
Last Monday, a delegation of Human Rights leaders that arrived in Jujuy met with Judge Fernández about the cases against the detainees.
Also present at the conference were leaders of the Workers’ Party, the Left Front, the Teresa Vive MST, the Teresa Rodríguez MTR-Votamos Luchar Movement, among other piqueteros organizations along with different human rights organizations grouped in the Peace and Justice Service (Serpaj) .
For her part, the member of the Encuentro Memoria Verdad y Justicia de Buenos Aires, Claudia Carrero, said that “there is a whole combo of accusations made based on statements by the same policemen who intervened who threw stones at them, rubber bullets and then they hit” and assured that “not granting them freedom is acting against the law”.
