2023-06-14 06:23:18
The attorney general stated that the cases filed are of people “who were detained during the emergency regime and who have died inside prisons.”
Rodolfo Delgado said that the Government of Nayib Bukele will ask Congress for extension number 15 of the emergency regime.
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has archived “142 cases” of deaths inside different prisons of The Savior for “not constituting a crime” by State Security agents, said this Tuesday (06.13.2023) the head of the Public Ministry, Rodolfo Delgado.
“Up to now, we as prosecutors have filed 142 cases of the number of people who died, who were detained during the exception regime and that they have died inside prisons,” Delgado said in an interview on a local channel.
The attorney general assured that the “142 cases do not constitute a crime, according to our investigations” and noted that “prosecutors technically investigated each of the facts.” He maintained that they have “scientifically verified, with the help of the Institute of Legal Medicine, the causes of death.”
Delgado indicated that “some of them (of the causes) were pre-existing illnesses, others were some type of illness in which due help was provided at the right time, by the prison authorities, and later unfortunately there was the death of that person.” person by natural causes.
“In these cases, so far, we have already verified that there is no crime to be prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office and therefore the cases are archived,” he reiterated.
On the data of at least 160 people, mostly young people, who have died in the custody of State Security agents during the controversial emergency regime measure – revealed by the humanitarian organization Cristosal In a report- Delgado assured that “it is not correct.”
“The data from that NGO is not correct. These data from the NGO have not been provided by official institutions, in this case Legal Medicine”, he argued and added: “They allude to some type of doctor who provided these data, they have been collected by different sources without a scientific way of ordering these data and have even taken into account, to try to magnify some of these numbers, statistics of deaths that occurred within the penitentiary system before the entry into force of the (exceptional) regime ».
The report of Cristosal It points out that patterns of deaths due to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment were identified and that corpses with lacerations, bruises that show beatings, injuries with sharp or blunt objects, strangulation, hanging and other signs of torture were identified.
Delgado announced that the Security authorities would be requesting this Tuesday to the Congress, dominated by the ruling party, the 15th extension of the emergency regime. Humanitarian organizations registered until mid-March 2023 at least 5,082 “direct victims” of human rights violations, mainly due to arbitrary detentions, in the context of said regime.
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