The Chilean head of state, Gabriel Boric, granted his first presidential pardon to a 22-year-old with terminal cancer sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbery and who remains hospitalized in Valdivia, in the south of the country.
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According to local media, The decree was signed during the morning of last Thursday by the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Marcela Ríosat the express request of President Boric, after analyzing the records provided by the Prison Conduct Court that accredited the qualification of the young man to be a creditor of the presidential pardon.
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In this case, the benefit fell to Byron Soto Rojas, who had been deprived of liberty for almost three years since July 12, 2019 after a 10-year sentence for robbery in an inhabited place and who suffers from stage 3 testicular cancer with metastasis. brain and lung, a condition that has worsened in recent months.
The Criminal Defense Office presented on December 24 the request for Rojas to be released given his delicate health condition, during the administration of former President Sebastián Piñera.
To date, Soto Rojas is already free and hospitalized in the oncology unit of the Valdivia Base Hospital, in the Los Ríos Region, almost 850 kilometers south of Santiago.
Given the confirmation of the fact, Boric’s opposition jumped to criticism before the president, exemplified in the voice of Senator Iván Moreira who pointed to the incoming government as a “Government of impunity and double standards in terms of Human Rights.”
The words of the public official come in reference to a case of a Chilean veteran who, in a state similar to that of the pardoned young man, is close to dying, without the company of his relatives and “in unhumane conditions,” according to opponents.
In accordance with the provisions of Chilean law 18,050, The pardon for humanitarian reasons can be granted by the President of the Republic “in qualified cases and by means of a well-founded supreme decree”only in cases in which the beneficiary “is convicted by an enforceable sentence and it is not terrorist behavior, qualified as such by a law enacted in accordance with article 9 of the Political Constitution of the State.”EFE
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