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Former President Jeanine Añez and former Minister of Government Arturo Murillo were denounced for crimes of torture and cruel treatment at the 72nd Session of the Committee Against Torture (CAT) of the United Nations (UN), reported the President for Human Rights of Bolivia, Nadesha Guevara.
The activist, interviewed by the state Bolivian Information Agency, stated that this session examined the acts of torture and violence that occurred during the ex-president’s government.
“My person (…) has been part of the November 23 session filing a criminal complaint against Arturo Murillo and Jeanine Añez for the crimes of torture and cruel treatment, with related crimes,” he reported.
He also said that Ayben Huaranca, one of the alleged victims of the acts of violence that took place in Senkata, in the city of El Alto, in November 2019, was resorted to in this complaint. That year Huaranca appeared in a video squeezing the chest of a injured while saying he was health personnel. He was later prosecuted for allegedly posing as a doctor.
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“We have presented our complaint on the second day (of the session). The rapporteur, who has carried out the examination for Bolivia, Rodrigo Jiménez Pinzón, has mentioned and highlighted the case of Ayben Huaranca as a case of torture that complies with all the elements of serious human rights violations from arbitrary illegal detentions to torture. who have been composing not only he, but many people in 2019 and 2020, “said Guevara.
He said that the recommendations of the UN CAT refer to a “direct fight” against hate speech, racism and discrimination “that was fostered these years.”
“He also talks about creating these bridges of justice so that there can be reparation. It is in this sense that it is very important that now, today, the victims can assume a representation before the CAT, as is the one that Mr. Ayben Huaranca has given with his testimony, “he concluded.
