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The State of Chile "commits a violation of human rights" inside the prisons for the omission of actions that remedy to the current situation, which is "very serious" He stated in an interview with EFE the spokesman of Amnesty International (AI) in Chile, Roberto Morales.
As a prison administrator of the country, the state "violated the concept of integrity" for not having "provided sufficient mechanisms for precaution and maintain the security of these people, "said Morales.
The situation of Chilean prisons, with overcrowding more than doubled in some of them, is under debate in the country. after the badaults suffered by two Ecuadorian citizens in the Santiago 1 prison in the hands of other prisoners.
These two people, who were in pretrial detention after supposedly killing a woman that they In the capital, they were beaten and shocked by other prisoners inside the city. jail.
Morales indicated that these situations occur "permanently", but not "with the same levels of seriousness or
The representative of Amnesty International stated that these attacks were due to a "structural problem" that was rooted for years in the Chilean prison system.
"(The State) permanent violations of human rights because, indeed, it does not ensure the minimum conditions, not only in terms of physical integrity, but also in other aspects ", Morales
" The conditions under which they are prisoners are inhuman ", affirmed.
Torture of Ecuadorian prisoners
The two detainees suffered, according to a video broadcast through alleged social networks. They were registered inside the prison, punched and kicked, shaved and electrically discharged with a cable from four other prisoners, until a gendarme (guard of the prison) intervene.
Such badaults on Ecuadorian citizens can happen to anyone in prison or remand, regardless of the act.
This situation sparked a debate in Chilean society about the situation of people deprived of their rights. Freedom in the South American country
According to the report published last May by the National Institute, trainees do not have beds for sleeping, overcrowding, cells without access to water and bad treatments. Human Rights (INDH)
The report reports on the conditions of detention in the country with visits to 43 penitentiary centers and all of Chile between the years 2014 and 2015.
" This has to do with the situation of prisoners in prison, we must not only stay in the situation of these two citizens and want to justify because they have committed a crime, " Morales pointed out.
In this sense, he stated that "the government has provided a good speech."
The Minister of Justice (Hernán Larraín) and also the President (Sebastián Piñera) have clearly established that, In no case and irrespective of the crime they committed, this may be justified, "Morales said.
Local media spoke of" torture "and even a gendarme was accused of avoiding this situation, which led to this week in a strike threat by the union, which finally reached an agreement with the government on Wednesday to improve the general situation of the penitentiary system.
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