February 20, 2023, 21:01 PM
February 20, 2023, 21:01 PM
The defense of the cocalero leader César Apaza went before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to denounce the situation in which your defendant is and request precautionary measures.
Lawyer Evelyn Cossío denounced that César Apaza -former cocalero leader, who He is admitted to the Emergency Department of the Hospital de Clínicas de La Pazdue to an embolism – receives inhumane treatment from the doctor who treats him and who intends to release him so that he can return to the Chonchocoro prison.
This Monday, the Vice Minister of Internal Affairs and PoliceIsmael Téllez, made a request to remove Apaza from the medical center; however, the doctors did not allow it.
Miriam Apaza, the leader’s sister, ratified Cossío’s complaint about alleged mistreatment that her brother would be suffering from hospital officials.
According to the account of Apaza’s sister, between 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, a doctor entered the room where the patient is hospitalized grower to verify his state of health. At that moment, she took him by the neck to force him to stick out his tongue; he told the relatives “that he has nothing” and accused Apaza of faking his illness to obtain his freedom.
This Sunday a doctor from the Ministry of Health arrived at the center where Apaza is hospitalized to presumably seek medical discharge. However, the request was rejected by the doctor on duty, because he owes practice one last study.
“César Apaza is not a criminal, he is for the sole fact of having been president of the Self-Defense Committee (of Adepcoca),” said the lawyer.
Cossío also questioned that no institution that is in charge of the defense of human rights would have gone to see the situation in which the cocalero is located, or to follow up on his situation after being hospitalized.
Apaza is in preventive detention for the acts of violence that occurred during the takeover of the Adepcoca parallel market, on September 8, 2022.
