Bolivian court extends preventive detention of Añez

A Criminal Investigation Court of the city of La Paz, Bolivia, extended this Saturday for five more months the preventive detention of the former de facto ruler, Jeanine Añez, as well as two former ministers investigated by crimes of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy.

In this way, the judge responds positively to the request for judicial measure by the Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office), which includes the former Minister of Justice, Álvaro Coimbra and of Energías, Rodrigo Guzmán, who must remain detained in the San Pedro prison, in La Paz.

Áñez is in preventive detention accused by the commission of crimes of sedition, terrorism and conspiracy during the coup d’état of November 2019, which left a balance of 37 people dead, 804 wounded and thousands of persecuted and tortured, according to complaints from various human rights organizations and the Prosecutor’s Office itself .

The petition to keep in prison The former senator is based, according to the accusing party, that there is a risk of flight and obstruction of the judicial process.

The defense of the ex-de facto ruler filed an appeal so that a court superior review this precautionary measure within the process at the request of former deputy Lidia Patty.

During the week, the Justice had already ruled against considering Añez as former constitutional president, before which The judicial process continues as a former senator.

Former Assemblywoman Lidia Patty has also filed criminal complaints against other Bolivian politicians who at the time supported the coup against Evo Morales in what It is considered continuity of the same cause that follows Añez.