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The president of the Senate, Adriana Muñoz (PPD), announced this Wednesday the presentation of a bill of general pardon for the prisoners of the social outbreak.
“We believe that it is not acceptable that more than a year ago today in our country they do not have the right to due process. It is not known what situation they are in, it is not known what charges can be made. There is a total anonymity and a total concealment of the reality of these people, the vast majority of them young, who all they have done is go out to protest, to exercise their legitimate right in democracy, “said the president of the Senate.
The parliamentarian explained that the project “is a general pardon law, just this once, for the cases that we indicate in the law, and to be able to exempt young people from the criminal responsibilities in which they are.”
“A law will allow people who are in this situation to be exempted from these criminal responsibilities. They are not people who have committed crimes. They are people who have come out to social protest (…) we do not want case by case, we think better of the alternative of the law, “he concluded.
On the other hand, the president of the Senate Human Rights Commission, Juan Ignacio Latorre, explained that in the current Constitution “there is the power for senators to present a bill of pardon.”
He recalled that “the President of the Republic has a particular power of pardon. Piñera has pardoned criminals against humanity. But senators have the power to present a bill via a general pardon law.”
The parliamentarian reported that he already realized this project in the Chamber session this afternoon, and announced that “it will begin to be processed in the Human Rights Commission.”
“This is a bill that we have done responsibly with a technical commission of lawyers with a lot of experience in human rights, and obviously listening to the pain of numerous groups of relatives of prisoners of the social revolt.”
Latorre also stated that according to data from the Public Ministry, there are still around 700 cases of young people in preventive detention. In that sense, he considered that “in Chile preventive detention is abused to criminalize social protest in many cases.”
Together with Latorre and Muñoz, the project was signed by senators Yasna Provoste, Isabel Allende and Alejandro Navarro.
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