The Government denounced at the UN “judicial persecution” and “proscription” of CFK

The Secretary for Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla, presented a report to the United Nations Organization (UN) where he targeted the Justice, the political opposition and the media Communication.

In Geneva, Pietragalla participated in a special session of the Human Rights Council in which Argentina presented its Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which promptly surveys the human rights situation in the country.

in this forum He asked for the support of the Human Rights Council for his complaints about “lawfare” in the country and targeted the media and the opposition that acts hand in hand with Justice to “persecute” the popular leaders. further, He referred to the “hate speech” that he linked to the assassination attempt against Cristina Kirchner It happened in September of last year.

“An important sector of the political opposition and the economic and media power, which 40 years ago resorted to military coups, today uses criminal law to condition political processes and define the political agenda and public opinion,” Pietragalla said. “Lawfare is a practice that violates human rights“, sentence.

“The only purpose that drives these practices is to eliminate the adversary. That is why the victims always turn out to be social or political leaders who confront the factual powers, be they political, economic or media,” he continued, giving the vice president an example as an object of persecution.

“It is clear that under the excuse of investigating and punishing criminal acts, fundamental guarantees of the rule of law have been violated and continue to be violated. Because these criminal cases are promoted only against political leaders who represent popular sectors, with the sole purpose of his political ban“, he stressed.

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In relation to Justice, he also expressed: “Impunity is guaranteed for people linked to economic power, who have allowed or endorsed criminal indebtedness and capital flight that has conditioned the country and generated poverty and indigence in the population.”

“The federal state must also answer internationally for the arbitrary detention suffered by the social and indigenous leader Milagro Salaprotected by a provisional measure issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights”, he added.

The official asked the UN for support for the different initiatives to reform Justice, arguing that “the republican system of division of powers is in check.” “We request the accompaniment of the Human Rights Council in promoting initiatives and regulatory reforms that seek to strengthen judicial independence and the rule of law in the country,” he said.

On the other hand, he referred to “hate speech”: “We must draw the Council’s attention to the so-called hate speech, and its implications for democratic coexistence, which culminated in the attempted assassination of the current Vice President of the Nation, and twice President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.”

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