Bolivia: Añez in prison, daughter asks Bachelet for help

(ANSA) – LA PAZ, DEC 22 – Carolina Ribera, daughter of the former interim president of Bolivia, Jeanine Añez, asked the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to intercede with the government of President Luis Arce in La Paz to put an end to what he called the “torture” his mother is allegedly undergoing.

“For the health and life of my mother and because of the injustice of her long preventive detention – wrote Ribera in a letter sent to Bachelet and published by the daily Los Tiempos – I ask you, please (…) to intercede with the Bolivian government in order to guarantee for her the possibility of treatment and a healthy life free from physical and psychological torture “..

Añez’s daughter also denounces that her mother “is isolated without being able to take advantage of the assistance necessary for her delicate health, considering that this condition is aggravated by the unjust imprisonment of 282 days, and by a constant psychological aggression aimed at emotionally demolishing it”.

During the more than nine months she was in pre-trial detention, the newspaper recalls, Añez suffered from various health problems, such as a crisis of hypertension, while on one occasion she injured her arm stating that she no longer wanted to live.

On Monday a Bolivian court rejected for the umpteenth time a request by the former interim head of state’s lawyers for bail, officially for “risk of flight” and possible “obstruction” of the trial.

Also for this reason Ribera finally invited Bachelet, who is currently in Santiago de Chile, to “know directly the conditions in which he finds himself” Añez in La Paz. (HANDLE).

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