translated from Spanish: Ex-Pinochet’s ex-agent’s provisional release ruling in Australia adjourned

The court decision in Australia on pro-provicant freedom Nal required by Adriana Rivas, former agent of the regime of Augusto Pinochet, was postponed on Tuesday after reporting presents apparent health problems.
Rivas, who remains on remand, is required by Chilean justice to try her for aggravated kidnapping, in connection with events that occurred more than four decades ago, during the Pinochet dictatorship.
Judge Margaret Quinn of Sydney’s Central Local Court on Tuesday gave “a short postponement until June 27” to deliver her ruling, she told Efe Adriana Navarro, a lawyer for the relatives of six of the victims attributed to Rivas.
The former agent had asked for parole shortly after being detained in the Australian city last February following a request for extradition from Chile.
The Chilean worked in the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA) and was the right-hand man of Manuel Contreras, considered one of the top criminals of the Pinochet dictatorship, when these human rights violations occurred to him.
At today’s hearing, Rivas’ defense reported that the defendant was taken to a hospital on Monday for routine surgery, which was ultimately not performed because the Chilean complained of palpitations.
Rivas’ lawyer asked for an adjournment pending reports from cardiologists, which the judge granted.
Despite the suspense, “relatives remain fairly calm,” explained Navarro, who lamented that the postponements prevented reaching “a final hearing of the extradition request.”
Chile requested Rivas’ extradition in 2014 for his participation in seven kidnappings classified as disappearances that occurred between 1974 and 1977, when he was an officer of the DINA, political police of the Pinochet regime (1973-1990).
The defendant has lived in Australia for more than three decades, where she has worked caring for children and cleaning houses.
In 2006 she traveled to Chile to visit the family and was arrested, although she managed to flee again to the ocean country while on probation.
The testimonies of tortured emphasize that Rivas was a ruthless person in the interrogations that took place in the Simón Bolívar barracks, where the so-called Lautaro Brigade of the DINA, to which he belonged, operated.
According to official data, during the Pinochet dictatorship, some 3,200 Chileans were killed by state agents, 1,192 of which are still listed as missing detainees, while some 33,000 were tortured and imprisoned for political reasons.

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