Jeanine Áñez was taken to another prison and is awaiting …

The former de facto president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, was transferred in the last hours from Obrajes prison to Miraflores prison, after a judge revoke the order to take him to a medical center. It is expected that this Saturday appeal the preventive detention dictated by its participation in the 2019 coup.

“They took me out, telling me I was going to the southern clinic,” Áñez said, according to the newspapers. The duty Yes The reason, who also posted footage of his admission to Miraflores prison. Originally, the de facto ex-president was going to be taken to a clinic to have her condition assessed. hunger-strike against his arrest and to indicate that he suffers from hypertension, but a judge revoked this transfer.

Magistrate Armando Zeballos instead ordered that staff from the Forensic Research Institute or health professionals come to the prison to assess their status, said the Bolivian News Agency (ABI).

On the other hand, Áñez and his two former ministers Álvaro Coimbra and Rodrigo Guzmán, also detained, have an appointment to attend a court hearing this Saturday to appeal the preventive detention. The second criminal chamber of the city of La Paz will be responsible for hearing the arguments of the parties.

According to the ABI agency, the defense strategy is to arrest Áñez at home, that is, her transfer to her home in the department of Beni, where she was arrested last week.

Áñez under investigation for alleged commission of crimes of sedition, terrorism and conspiracy during the coup against then-President Evo Morales, consumed in November 2019.

Her name appears in a complaint filed last December by former Movement for Socialism (MAS) deputy Lidia Patty against the civic leader of the wealthy Santa Cruz de la Sierra region, right-winger Luis Fernando Camacho, governor. elected from the department in recent local elections. The trial includes five former ministers from Áñez, police and military chiefs and civilians.