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Former Chilean agent Adriana Rivas, accused of the disappearance of seven people during the Augusto Pinochet regime in the 1970s, appealed in Australia to the court ruling authorizing their extradition to Chile.
The defense of Rivas presented last Friday an appeal against the ruling before the Australian Federal Court of Sydney, as found Efe in the court portal, although there is still no start date for this new process that could drag on for years.
This Tuesday, the Federal also dismissed by the “consent” of the parties another previous request by Rivas to invalidate his extradition trial for technical failures and against his arrest in Canberra.
Rivas, who worked for 30 years as a nanny and cleaning houses in Sydney, will have to pay the legal costs, according to the ruling of Judge Jane Abraham obtained by Efe.
THE ONLY LEGAL BATTLE THAT COULD TAKE YEARS
With that, The only legal battle that Rivas must fight is against the ruling that gave the green light to his extradition to Chile.
On October 29, a judge in a Sydney court in the Australian state of New South Wales gave the green light to Chile’s request to extradite Rivas, 67, who has been held in a Sydney prison since February. of 2019.
Rivas is accused of participating in the Lautaro extermination brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate, where she became the secretary of Manuel Contreras, the maximum repressor of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Rivas, who defends his innocence, is attributed an alleged participation in the “aggravated kidnapping” of Víctor Díaz, who was undersecretary of the Communist Party of Chile, in 1976.
He has also been implicated in the disappearance of Fernando Navarro, Lincoyán Berríos, Horacio Cepeda, Juan Fernando Ortíz, Héctor Veliz and Reinalda Pereira, who was pregnant at the time of her arrest.
The Appeal to the High Court of Australia could drag on for years, as happened with the former Serbian paramilitary Dragan Vasiljkovic, whose extradition to Croatia for his involvement in the atrocities during the Balkan War took almost a decade.
