INDH will file a complaint for torture and internal rape at Calama Prison

The National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) announced that it would file a complaint for torture and rape against an inmate of Calama Prison.

According to the detailed organization, the legal action will be interposed after receiving an information from the woman who is imprisoned as charged by the crime of parricide, committed against her husband.

The complainant was a member of the C.D.P. Calama since May 18, initially due to an extension of detention, and since May 21, in application of the preventive measure of preventive detention.

The woman accused that during the night and early Wednesday, October 24, while she was in an isolation cell, two men entered her room. They beat and raped her, reported on October 25 in court. guarantee.

The magistrate of this hearing ordered that she be transferred immediately to verify the injuries sustained in a hospital, the wounds were verified, giving rise to an investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor and, consequently, to the complaint from the INDH.

NHRI Director Consuelo Contreras said: "We reject violence against women in all its forms and under all circumstances, and in this case it is particularly serious. that it is a brutal badual badault and that it has occurred with regard to a woman who is in the custody of the state. "

Contreras added that" we intervene so that these facts are examined in all the corresponding instances and that the protective measures for the victim are adopted as soon as possible ".

Currently, the wife of the initials K.H.C. was transferred without informing his defense of C.P.P. from Tocopilla.

Regarding the judicial intervention of the INDH, Rodrigo Bustos, head of the legal and judicial service, said that "the institute will file a complaint for torture crime with badual connotation and we will seek immediate protection measures for the victim, "adding that" it is very serious events because the state would violate international standards for the prohibition of torture and obligations with regard to violence against women. "