Pardon law: president of the Senate said that “many” of the people in pretrial detention “would have already served their sentence” if they had been sanctioned

During this day, President-elect Gabriel Boric referred to the project of pardon of the so-called prisoners of the social outbreak. On the occasion, he called on the Senate to “resolve the initiative during the month of January.” “He can’t keep waiting. We as a government are committed to establishing a dialogue that is broad,” he said, indicating that they hope “that it will be resolved in the current Congress.” In this regard, it was the president of the Upper House, Ximena Rincón who responded about that, assuring that “we hope that the discussion will be made with the background that we have on a situation that affects these people,” he said. With this, he indicated that it is also to be expected that “measures will be taken on the part of the Prosecutor’s Office, of the courts, because it cannot be that people in general, and not only in this particular case, are subject to preventive prisons that probably when time counts, many of the cases would have already served the sentence assigned to them if they had been sanctioned.” Said. And in this sense, he insisted that it is clear that “the cases that remain, for the causes that exist as antecedents, many would have already served their sentence.”

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