For the 39th anniversary of democracy and on Human Rights Day, tomorrow there will be a press conference at exEsma

This Saturday marks a new anniversary of the Day of the Restoration of Democracy, and the Secretariat of Human Rights of the Nation together with Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo-Founding Line, and Relatives of Disappeared and Detained for Political Reasons will give a press conference tomorrow at the headquarters of the former ESMA to denounce “the serious institutional situation that the country is going through.” The press conference will be held from 10.30 in front of the Memory Site Museum of the former ESMA, located at Avenida Del Libertador 8151, as reported by the Secretariat of Human Rights through a statement. The call was made after the Federal Oral Court No. 2 convicted Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the framework of the trial for the mediatized cause as Vialidad, and on the occasion of the date on which the International Day of Human Rights and Day of the Restoration of Democracy in Argentina is commemorated. Horacio Pietragalla Corti and the highest referents of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo – Founding Line, Relatives of Disappeared and Detained for Political Reasons, as well as representatives of other organizations, as recorded. In a flagship country of human rights, with policies of memory, truth and active justice, with more than a thousand genocide perpetrators convicted, with 130 grandchildren returned and almost 40 years of democracy, human rights organizations, together with the Secretariat of Human Rights of the Nation, called a press conference to denounce the serious institutional situation that the country is going through. Last Tuesday, the TOF No. 2 sentenced the vice president to 6 years in prison, special perpetual disqualification from holding public office for the crime of fraudulent administration to the detriment of the public administration and urged the confiscation of 84 billion pesos, in the framework of the trial for the alleged direction of public works in Santa Cruz. From the Secretariat of Human Rights they assured in a document that the ruling is a “curtailment of the political rights” of the vice president, which constitutes “the maximum concretion of lawfare in our country,” and called on international organizations to “carry out an exhaustive scrutiny on these irregular judicial processes.” In addition, they pointed out that “this sentence is inseparable from the upcoming electoral process and will conclude with the presidential elections of 2023.”

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