At a press conference, the official explained that the measure was discussed with groups of relatives of the prisoners of the protests and with some of the victims, and remarked that the decision aims to “review and heal certain wounds left by the outbreak in society ” in Chile.
The initiative seeks to amnesty prisoners of the massive protests who have committed crimes between October 7, 2019 and December 9, 2020, and is under debate in Congress.
The administration of Sebastian Pinera He had advanced that he would veto the project if it advanced to its sanction.
“By the way, there is a first debt and mission with respect to obtaining the truth and obtaining justice regarding the different cases that have occurred of human rights violations,” Jackson stressed, according to the Sputnik agency.
At the conference, the minister was accompanied by Senator Fabiola Campillai, Chile’s first blind parliamentarian, who lost her sight after a carabinero (militarized police) shot her in the face with a tear gas grenade.
The project entered Congress as a pardon proposal and was later mutated to an amnestyand establishes the extinction of the responsibility of protesters accused of crimes during demonstrations, leaving out those accused of committing serious crimes or who put someone’s life at risk.
The social outbreak was a movement of citizen protests originated on October 18, 2019 against the current economic system of then President Piñera and the Constitution drafted during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-90), and ended up giving way to the current constituent process.
The repression exerted by Carabinieri and the Armed forces During the protests, he left thousands of complaints of human rights violations, ratified by national and international organizations such as the United Nations Organization (UN), Amnesty International and the National Institute of Human Rights, among others.
Source: Ambito
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