Different social and political organizations in the province of Jujuy They denounced the Provincial Judicial Power for the arrest of the lawyer Hector Huespe. Said lawyer, who sponsors street vendors grouped in the Jujuy Street and Fairground Association (AFAAJ), defended neighbors during the repression of the UCR governor’s police, Gerardo Morales placeholder image, in the Campo Verde neighborhood.
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In dialogue with The uncovering, the lawyer said that the provincial police approached his home but he was not there because he was on a trip to Buenos Aires to present evidence of what had happened: “Around 3 o’clock in the afternoon they fell at my house, they came with a warrant for They detained my wife and they did not give her. They wanted to enter to verify that I was not there, my wife did not let them in and they called some friendly lawyers. ” In addition, he added: “I found out about all that in the course of the afternoon, I alerted the companions and a big quilombo was put together.”
Following the same line, Host He remarked that this Saturday they came out to deny that he had tried to arrest him. “The problem is not the order but are criminalizing the exercise of the legal profession. We are a fundamental part of the justice system and we cannot be bothered for the causes that we defend. They are charging me for the defenses I make, as a criminal, “he said and warned: “What they do is intimidate all the lawyers and if any of them dare to defend causes against the Government, the same thing will happen to them.”
Lawyer Luis Paz He assumed the defense of his colleague and stated that the agents tried to enter the home on Friday afternoon. “They leave a lot of people without defenders, what is happening in Jujuy is crazy. The violation of human rights is mainly due to the accusations of a lawyer in the exercise of the profession. It is like they accuse a judge for doing his job, “he said Host in dialogue with this medium.
Despite the sayings, the Jujuy newspaper The Tribune published that completely deny the arrest from the Public Prosecutor’s Office. “If they did not arrest me, it is not because they did not get the warrant but because I was already on a trip to Buenos Aires. They did not arrest me, they went to my house, they tried to raid my house with my children inside,” he remarked.
In the meantime, Paz He explained that his defendant is being harassed “for functional impairment” and stressed that “they invented successive legal and misdemeanor cases to be able to deprive him of his freedom.” They also highlighted that they denied him the free exercise of his profession and even prohibited those who were arrested in Campo Verde -300 troops repressed with rubber bullets, tear gas and batons a multitude of neighbors, with children, who did it. appoint as defense attorney.
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