They denounce the sexual violence inflicted on female police officers during the curfew

Many cases of abuse of power and sexual nature during the crackdown on protests of the last days against the government's policy of Sebastian Piñera have been denounced by feminist networks and organizations Chile.

Feminist and human rights networks have denounced many cases of sexual abuse by members of the Chilean Special Forces, Police and militaryespecially during arrests during demonstrations in various Chilean cities during the state of emergency.

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Events in Chile they started late last week, after the government of Pineapple organized an increase in the price of transport, as well as repression, clashes with demonstrators and their removals already gone 15 dead, hundreds wounded (88 bullets) and about 1,300 prisoners.

The demonstrations have resulted in massive repudiation of precarious health and education, social security pensions and "government negotiations with elites and businesses," he warned. Andrea Ramosof Valparaiso, Chile.

At the exit of thousands of Chileans in the streets, the Piñera Executive answered with Police, Military Police, Army and Special Police Operations Group (BEPG) in the street and gave them the green light to act at their discretion.

he National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) He presented a new report today in which he reported that he had brought 21 legal actions in favor of 53 people, including two complaints of sexual violence against women in police stations.

"There are several girls detained and many more missing since Friday, the mothers are desperate.We are with detainees missing as under the dictatorship," he said. Patricia, a 47-year-old psychologist who has not given her last name, since Santiago de Chile, in a viralized audio.

He warned that in Chile "There is a communication barrier: the excesses are committed by the police and the army who enter homes to loot, and the women most severely affected."

Sexual violence against women is a continuous thing in Chile and in the region, "since the police apparatus has always been educated to be a patriarchal device," he said. Silvana del Valle, counsel for Chilean Network Against Violence Against Women.

One of the women arrested said she was returned to the trash and that a soldier, with the service weapon, after threatening to kill her if she moved, touched her body with a rifle and threatened to "penetrate with the weapon". "say it NHRIs about one of the actions that he has raised today.

The number of sexual violence and harassment of women has increased more and more since the beginning of the demonstrations, NGO Amaranta This gathers testimonials.

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Six appeals were also lodged with the judge of the guarantees "for the urgency related to the conditions of detention of the victims", he declared. Sergio Micco, director of NHRIs.

Patricia explained that "the girls who were arrested were all undressed in front of men, not women as required by law, they were all touched to the genitals, breasts, several were placed or the end of the rifle or the ass, in the vagina and they were told that they wanted to be raped in the ass, they all treated them like whores, they will rape them and then they will kill them, a lot of these girls do not always go back to their homes. "

The Female Coordinator 8M He called today to "organize" with our neighbors and neighbors at popular assemblies "and said that" feminists will be on the streets despite the army, militarized police and BEPGs".