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Bolivia’s First Sentencing Court decides not to release Jeanine Áñez due to flight risk

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bolivia's First Sentencing Court refused on Monday to release former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez due to flight risk. She will have to remain in jail after being charged with sedition, terrorism, and conspiracy for her role in the framework of the 2019 post-election crisis.

The Court considers that a risk of flight and obstruction persists, so it has determined that the accused will continue her detention in Miraflores prison, where she has denounced verbal and physical aggression by police personnel.

"They are again delaying, suspending, or declaring a fourth intermission in another release hearing . . .

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