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Former President Mesa assures that there is “procedural fraud” in the ruling against Jeanine Áñez in Bolivia

Former president of Bolivia Carlos Mesa considered that the prison sentence against former interim president Jeanine Áñez is a great...

June 13, 2022

UN Committee against Torture calls for urgent reform of Bolivian courts for lack of independence

The report, prepared by 10 independent experts who monitor the implementation of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel,

December 6, 2021

Chile’s Piñera testifies in lawsuit alleging crimes against humanity during protests

Piñera gave his testimony to the Prosecutor's Office this week, alongside his attorney and from his private home in the...

July 23, 2021

STF Justice Fachin sees signs of “arbitrary executions” in Rio police operation

Justice Edson Fachin, one of the members of Brazil's Supreme Court, on Friday described as "serious" the allegations of abuses...

May 8, 2021

Appalled protesters demand justice for 25 lives lost in police operation in Rio de Janeiro

Demonstrators from the favela of Jacarezinho gathered this Friday in front of the Civil Police facilities in Rio de Janeiro...

May 7, 2021

Police operation causes “the biggest massacre in the history of Rio de Janeiro”

Two subway passengers were injured this morning, May 6th, inside a train of Line 2, at the Triagem station in...

May 6, 2021

400 Colombian activists killed since 2016: Rights group

More than 400 human rights defenders have been killed in Colombia since 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, February...

February 11, 2021