March 6, 2023, 2:22 PM
March 6, 2023, 2:22 PM
A La Paz judge rescheduled this Monday the hearing on a possible sixth extension of the preventive detention of former President Jeanine Áñezfor the so-called Coup I case, for next March 8.
“The judge for violence against women rescheduled the prosecutor’s request hearing for a sixth extension of preventive detention precisely for #8M #DíadelaMujer. Terrorism is what they do to me and all the political prisoners. It was fraud and the flight of the pair of terrorists, ”said Áñez through his social networks, which are managed by his relatives since his imprisonment.
It is not the first time that this hearing has been rescheduled. On February 28, the same thing also happened and for this reason, precisely, said judicial act had to be carried out at 08:30 on Monday, March 6.
Then, Áñez’s defense, headed by lawyer Alaín de Canedo, had already described said action as “totally illegal” because the Criminal Procedure Code establishes that preventive detention has a maximum duration of 12 months.
The former president has been detained since March 2021 and faces several processes, including, for the so-called Coup II case, she has already been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In the Coup I case, the former president is accused of the alleged commission of the crimes of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy; and in Coup II she was tried for breach of duty and resolutions contrary to the Constitution and laws.
