Given the situation, the judge rescheduled the virtual hearing for February 21.
A doctor who visited the former right-wing president before the hearing reported that “she is delicate” but “does not warrant hospitalization.” “She will decide if she continues her hunger strike,” she added.
Áñez, who defines herself as a “political prisoner”, began a hunger strike on February 9, on the eve of her trial for her alleged participation in a coup against her predecessor, the leftist Evo Morales (2006-2019).
He is accused of having unconstitutionally assumed the presidency in November 2019 after Morales’ resignation amid massive protests for alleged electoral fraud denounced by the Organization of American States (OAS).
Former President Carlos Mesa (2003-2005) tried to visit Áñez in prison after the incident, but was denied entry.
“I want to respectfully ask former president Jeanine Áñez to end her hunger strike. She is putting her life at risk and she has to hope that justice will be done,” said the opposition leader at the prison door.
“Nobody is saying that he should not submit to a trial, whatever it may be, but that he should submit to a trial in balanced conditions, in conditions of independent justice, which does not exist at this time,” he added.
The Áñez incident occurred while a United Nations mission invited by the government of leftist Luis Arce is assessing the independence of Bolivian justice.
In August, a group of experts hired by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in agreement with Bolivia concluded that “magistrates, magistrates, and prosecutors are exposed to external pressure and interference in the exercise of their functions, particularly from political sectors.”
Source: Ambito
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