(CNN Spanish) — The former president of Bolivia Carlos Mesa denounced that the Penitentiary System prevented his and the president of the Human Rights Assembly, Amparo Carvajal, from entering the Miraflores women’s prison in La Paz, to visit the former interim president Jeanine Áñez, who She is confined in that prison, and according to her relatives, she is in a critical state of health.
As Mesa explained on the outskirts of the prison, the prison authority justified the determination with a document that indicates that people over 55 would not be allowed to enter the premises due to issues related to covid-19.
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Áñez, who suffered a decompensation this Thursday morning during a hearing in the case called “Coup d’etat I” accused of the crimes of sedition, terrorism and conspiracy during the political and social crisis of 2019, is celebrating her ninth day of strike hunger that began by demanding a fair trial in a country that he described as “without justice or law”.
Until this Thursday, the Penitentiary Regime had not publicly ruled on the refusal of Mesa and Carvajal to enter the penitentiary center and had not answered a request for comments sent by CNN.
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Mesa, who also assured that there are no arguments for Áñez to continue to be detained, asked the former interim president to lift the extreme measure of the hunger strike to preserve her life.
The Ministry of Government said in a statement on Wednesday that the former president had received three medical check-ups and that “her vital signs” were “within normal parameters.” She added that she “received visits from her family and her attorneys on a regular basis.”