The National Association of Defenders of the National Institute of Human Rights (Andedh) reported that the director of the entity Sergio Micco Aguayo intervened the institution and proceeded to execute dismissals of senior public office as a form of intimidate workers, including the head of the Osvaldo Torres and Jorge Ortíz, head of the administration and finance unit, wounded with pellets in October 2019.
They noted that the disengagements are intended to intimidate “officials who have opposed the policy of intervention implemented by management and political parties to reduce the autonomy of the Indh and to relativize human rights violations; denying the systematic nature of crimes and crimes committed by State agents, in order to avoid taking on the corresponding political and criminal responsibilities.”
In the statement they note that the intervention began on 03 November and “continued the censorship of the 2019 annual report by persons outside the institution and trusted by the director”.
These,” the text adds, “without a contract of employment with the Indh, they modified the contents of the 2019 annual report and accessed the personal information of the victims, without due confidentiality clause”.
The result “is manifested in a text that does not meet the minimum technical standards of a report prepared under the human rights approach, relating to the seriousness of the repressive policy with which the mobilizations of the outbreak were attempted social,” the Andedh states.
“These irregularities have initiated an audit by the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic,” they said.
Andedeh also asked the National Congress, the deans of the law faculties and civil society to monitor “the actions of the counselors and counselors they appointed to safeguard and strengthen the institutional work”.
