May 5, 2023, 11:02 PM
May 5, 2023, 11:02 PM
Exhausted judicial instances in Boliviathe defense of former President Jeanine Áñez presented the formal complaint against the Plurinational State on Thursday morning and now It remains to wait for the deadlines of the multilateral entity.
“Yesterday I presented before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights @CIDH the international lawsuit against the Plurinational State of Bolivia for his denial of my right to the natural judgemy right to #TrialOfResponsibilities, as it corresponds to me as a former President of Bolivia, “says the former president’s tweet.
In December 2022, after the decision of the Constitutional Chamber of La Paz, which declared inadmissible the request to be judged in a liability trial for the Senkata case, the former president’s lawyer, Luis Guillén, announced that all national instances had been exhausted to achieve justice in favor of her client and therefore, only the international complaint remained.
“There is no longer a body that can be turned to in the Bolivian judicial system. We are waiting for all the information, including this resolution, surely the international complaint will be presented immediately before the IACHR”, the lawyer had advanced.
jeanine anez was apprehended on March 13, 2021 in the city of Trinidad and two days later she was taken to a prison, since then she has not been released and the Government presented at least four lawsuits for which she is detained.
The former president claimed her right to be tried as former president of Boliviabut the court denied her that request, arguing that she does not have a legal document that establishes her status as the country’s president.
that way opened proceedings for the case of the Bolivian Food Company (EBA), where he designated one of his relatives. In November of last year, the court denied her the possibility of being tried under a responsibility trial, stating that she had no way to prove that she was constitutional president.
With this background, the Ministry of Justice requested the inclusion of the former president in the Senkata case for the death of a dozen people in a military operation on November 19, 2019, it is for this last case that Áñez decided to go to international justice.
He does it shortly before that too be included in the Sacaba case, who lives in the department of Cochabamba, for the death of six peasants from Chapare that occurred on November 14, 2019.
