They extend Jean’s preventive prison to six months …

Bolivian justice has extended from four to six months the pre-trial detention that former de facto president Jeanine Áñez must serve while her responsibility for the coup against Evo Morales in November 2019 is under investigation. The measure also applies to his former ministers of justice and energy, also detained. Áñez is under medical supervision for a photo of the hypertension. The former de facto president was going to be taken to a clinic to have her health assessed at the request of her defense, but a judge canceled the transfer and decided to relocate her to Miraflores prison. The Minister of Justice, Iván Lima, assured this Sunday that “all the medical infrastructure was guaranteed there”.

“The modification of the period of preventive detention of the three co-defendants which was initially indicated as four months, is determined to six months of investigation in this condition of preventive detention,” said Willy Arias, member in charge of the hearing of the Second Criminal Chamber of the city of La Paz. Arias explained that the determination that former President Áñez and former Ministers Rodrigo Guzmán and Arturo Coimbra remain in prison is justified in that it is considered that there is a probability of paternity and why there are procedural risks which “deserve the extreme measure of preventive detention”.

The lawyer of the former president, Luis Guillen, said in a press conference after the court ruling that “They are not surprised” by the increase in the sentence or the rejection of the action in freedom so that Áñez can be transferred to a sanatorium. From the prison door and after having read the decision to increase the length of preventive detention, Áñez’s daughter, Carolina RiberaHe said he would continue to try to get his mother out of prison for treatment at a medical center. “We are not going to rest until we see my mother free. We are not going to rest until she can be assisted in a clinic by specialists.”he told the local press.

The former president, who was arrested in the early hours of Saturday, March 13, was sent to Obrajes prison after a precautionary hearing that determined she was to stay in a penitentiary for four months, while the investigation on the coup against Morales after the 2019 election and amid fraud charges promoted by the Organization of American States (OAS).

Friday night It was announced that Áñez would be taken to a clinic to be checked for her hypertension, and instead she was transferred from Obrajes Prison to Miraflores Prison., where, according to the government, there is “all the medical infrastructure” to monitor their health. The former president is also said to have started a hunger strike against her preventive detention, a fact that has never been officially confirmed.

Judge Armando Zeballos has ordered staff from the Forensic Research Institute or medical professionals to come to the prison to assess their condition. “Since the judge gave the order, we have already assigned two female doctors and a specialist doctor to treat her”, said the Minister of Justice Ivan Lima.

Regarding the transfer decision, Lima clarified that “the conditions granted by Miraflores are provided to provide better care” and added in an interview with El Deber Radio that it is already guaranteed “that all human rights organizations and the family can visit him”.