SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Bolivia’s interim government has used the judiciary to launch a political attack on former President Evo Morales and his allies, a Human Rights Watch report said on Friday, an accusation rejected by the conservative government.
The government, led by President Jeanine Anez, took over last year after a debatable general election sparked widespread protests that forced leftist leader Morales to resign.
According to HRW’s report, morales’s counter-terrorism rates for murderous riots after he fled the country last November gave the impression of having “political motivations. “He added that Morales had used the judiciary in the same way in his reign of just 14 years.
Tensions have simmered in the Andean country as it is heading towards a delayed redistribution of the October 18 elections. Inez and others will lead the current leader, a candidate of the Socialist Party of Morales.
Government fees opposed Morales similar to a bachelor phone call a few days after he left Bolivia in which he suggested a supporter to “fight” the interim government, HRW said, and the 20-year criminal sentence requested for the alleged “totally disproportionate” crime.
Terrorism fees against Morales’ former lawyer and staff leader were based on her telephone contact with him, she added, while a Morales supporter accused of sedition for calling the new government “dictatorial. “
Bolivia’s Presidency Minister Yerko Nuez said in reaction to the report that he categorically rejects the concept of any political persecution that opposes Morales.
“A former president ordered the blockade of cities, to allow food to pass through a country he ruled himself, all by an undeniable will to power,” he added.
HRW said it had thousands of court documents and police reports related to 21 instances of more than a hundred former members or supporters of Morales’ management accused of crimes, adding terrorism and sedition.
He said he had presented evidence that Morales had also used the judicial formula opposed to his parties to the conflict during his years in office, and that Anez “had the possibility of breaking with the afterlife and ensuring the independence of the judiciary. “
Instead, he has publicly pressured prosecutors and judges “to promote his interests,” said José Miguel Vivanco, HRW’s director for the Americas.
This week, anez’s government ignored opposition supporters who led protests and blockades of pandemic-opposed roads in the International Criminal Court, saying cutting off medical assistance to civilians is a “crime against humanity. “
On Monday, a Bolivian court rejected a legal challenge through Morales that opposed a ruling prohibiting him from running for a Senate seat on the grounds that he was no longer a resident of Bolivia.
(Report via Aislinn Laing; Additional report via Daniel Ramos; Edited through David Gregorio)
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