Chilean court ratifies sentence against Jones Huala

The Supreme Court of Justice of Chile rejected on Thursday the appeal for annulment brought by the defense of the Argentine Mapuche Facundo Jones Huala against the sentence that sentenced him to 9 years imprisonment for the fire of 39, a house.

"The Supreme Court has dismissed Facundo Jones Huala's appeal for annulment of the lonko, he must complete the 9 years for which he was convicted with evidence from the intelligence law," tweeted one of his lawyers. , Karina Riquelme.

In
the appeal for annulment, presented at the end of January, of Riquelme and the lawyer
Sonia Ivanoff, from Argentina, told magistrates that
some of the evidence used in the case against him had been
obtained by "the intelligence law, without defense control, which
he could not have access to all the information because it was secret. "

The judges also approved the effective sentence reduction of about three years, ie the period during which Jones Huala was still in pre-trial detention in Unit 12 of Esquel and in the prison with grant of Valdivida in the years 2013, 2017 and 2018.

according to
Riquelme said that in Chile, the next stage of defense will be to go to
Inter-American Court of Human Rights where they will denounce that Jones Huala in
the reality is a political persecution of the states of Chile and Argentina and that
He also did not have access to a fair trial.

Jones
Huala will be able to go on parole in 2021 depending on what
establishes justice in Chile.

The conviction was for having participated in the burning of a property in the ranch of Pisué Pisué on January 9, 2013, with a group of foreigners, and for illegal possession of homemade guns. .