The Minister of Justice, Marcela Riosmet with the director of the Chilean office of Amnesty International (AI), rodrigo bustosregarding the recent report by the NGO on the situation of human rights on the planet and in the country, which contemplates the year 2021. In response to the report, the Secretary of State expressed that preventive detention in Chile “is a problem” .
In the report, Amnesty pointed out that last year Carabineros continued to make “excessive use of force and at least two more cases of eye injuries were recorded.” In addition, they accused arbitrary arrests after the social outbreak, adding that they received testimonies of “several cases of unjustified use of preventive detention.”
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At the meeting, the Secretary of State promised to accept the recommendations that point to progress in terms of justice and reparation regarding the events that have occurred since 18-O and also in the past.
In this sense, the minister pointed out that “we have committed to incorporating the recommendations of Amnesty International in our monitoring of the work that we are doing from this ministry in terms of human rights violations.”
Likewise, he stated that “we share the diagnosis that preventive detention in Chile, both with respect to the social outbreak and in general terms, is a problem.”
“That preventive detention is not used as an early punishment worries us greatly, and secondly we have prison conditions that often do not ensure respect for the dignity of people deprived of liberty,” he added.
Meanwhile, Bustos pointed out that “we are available to collaborate with the State of Chile as a whole, so that the debts in terms of human rights are settled, which has to do with the social outbreak, which has to do with the civic dictatorship military, which also have to do with the protection of human rights defenders”.
The meeting was also attended by the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Haydee Oberreuterand the president of the board of directors of AI Chile, sofia lanyon.
