The complaint filed by attorney Nadeshdha Guevara has already been accepted by the Attorney General's Office.
La Paz, December 29 (RHC)-- In the Bolivian capital, lawyer Nadeshdha Guevara filed a complaint against the former Bolivian de facto president, Jeanine Áñez and the former Minister of Government, Arturo Murillo, due to the alleged illegal detention and torture of 54 people in the framework of the violent repression between 2019 and 2020.
With this new case, there are now four criminal complaints against the former de facto president, who has been behind bars since March of this year.
Guevara said that the complaint was filed for the crimes of "torture, cruel and inhuman treatment and related crimes" and the Prosecutor's Office has already accepted it and determined who will be the prosecutor and the police investigator.
Áñez's lawyer told local media that so far they have not been notified of the lawsuit announced by Guevara. According to the complainant, in these days the plaintiffs must give statements to ratify the lawsuit.
The lawyer indicated that the content of the complaint was already presented at the 72nd Session of the Committee Against Torture (CAT) of the United Nations, held in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the alleged victims of torture by the coup government of Áñez, is the nurse Ayben Huaranca, who appears in a video wounded by a bullet projectile in Senkata in November 2019.
The nurse, according to the images, far from helping the wounded, simulates performing a resuscitation technique, pressing on the chest of the wounded, still conscious. There it was observed that the maneuvers caused more bleeding in one of the wounds and the wounded, despite that, focuses on the cell phone camera that managed to make a call for help.
Previously, Guevara and Huaranca presented themselves as representatives of the 54 victims of torture in several European countries to give the version of the Government of Luis Arce on the coup d'état against the former president Evo Morales occurred in Bolivia.
Áñez has another open process for the coup, where she was charged for terrorism sedition and conspiracy, another for the same facts, but for the crimes of resolutions contrary to the Construction breach of duties and was called "Coup II", linked to the manipulation of patriotic symbols in her possession, on November 12, 2019.
A third process was opened for the alleged irregular appointment of one of his family, Karina Fabiola Leiva Áñez de Ruiz, as manager of Empresa Boliviana de Alimentos (EBA) in 2020.
