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Former judge Baltasar Garzón is one of the signatories of a letter from the Chilean Human Rights Commission (CCHDH) to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in which request “the urgent dispatch” of an observer mission to Chile.
The organization supports its request to the branch led by former President Michelle Bachelet in the possible violations of fundamental guarantees denounced since October last year, for which a UN delegation already visited the country at the end of 2019.
The letter signed by the former magistrate argues that, despite the modification to the Carabineros protocols announced before the pandemic, “the same people responsible for leading the country’s uniformed police, during all this time, in particular General Director Mario Rozas, continues to command the institution, with a policy of unrestricted support for their subordinates, generating a feeling of protection and favoring human rights violations“.
#FIBGAR, former judge #BaltasarGarzon , President of the Chilean Human Rights Commission, Carlos Margotta and International Lawyers Associations ask #High Commissioner # Michelle Bachelet send Observer Mission to #DDHH a #Chile pic.twitter.com/RL6IPW7Eat
– Chilean Commission of Human Rights (@ComisionChilena) October 10, 2020
In this sense, in addition to remembering that the first anniversary of the social outbreak and the celebration of the Plebiscite are approaching, they emphasize that a week ago the incident on the Pío Nono bridge, which qualify as “an attempted homicide caused by a police officer who threw a minor into the bed of the Mapocho River.”
“Due to all of the foregoing, the undersigned wish to request that, within the sphere of its powers, take the necessary steps to send a mission of observer of human rights that, preventively, they can deploy throughout the country, reporting, observing and supervising the actions of the police, for 10 days, from October 16 to 26, 2020 “, requests the letter.
This in function of “preventing” alleged acts of police violence, “because we have well-founded reasons to fear a new bloodshed in a country that was already brutally punished during the dictatorship, as well as recently in the repression of protesters who demand a New Constitution, a social pact, truth, justice and above all dignity” .
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