Tag: Facundo Jones Huala

• Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 09:41 UTC

  Jones Huala must leave Chile at the earliest

  

  Argentine-born Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala must leave Chile as soon as he is discharged from the hospital where he was admitted after going on a hunger strike for 50 days to demand his freedom which the Supreme Court granted last week, the authorities in Santiago ruled last Friday.

• Friday, August 16th 2024 - 21:36 UTC

  Chile's Supreme Court orders Jones Huala's release

  

  Chile's Supreme Court Friday ordered the immediate release of convicted Mapuche leader Facundo Jones Huala of Argentine origin because he had served out his sentence by June 14 and had therefore been “illegally deprived of his freedom.” The Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) activist had been convicted of arson and illegal possession of firearms in 2013.

• Friday, January 5th 2024 - 10:13 UTC

  Jones-Huala extradited yet again to Chile

  

  Mapuche rebel Facundo Jones Huala was extradited Thursday for a second time in his life from Argentina to Chile to serve out the remainder of his prison sentence for a 2013 arson attack. Jones Huala was escorted across the Andes by Interpol and law enforcement officers from both countries.

• Wednesday, November 15th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Argentina's Supreme Court rules to extradite Jones Huala to Chile

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court (CSJN) Tuesday cleared the way for the extradition of Mapuche guerrilla leader Facundo Jones Huala to Chile to serve the remainder of his sentence.

• Tuesday, August 1st 2023 - 10:21 UTC

  Extradition of Mapuche leader to Chile granted, but appeals will ensue

  

  A federal judge in Bariloche Monday ruled in favor of extraditing Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones-Huala to Chile under the recommendation that the days he spent in detention in Argentina be counted as time served.

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 17:16 UTC

  Mapuche rebel Jones Huala arrested in Argentine Patagonia

  

  Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM) leader Facundo Jones Huala has been arrested by Río Negro provincial police in the Argentine city of El Bolsón after being a fugitive from Chile's Judiciary since Feb. 11, 2022.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2022 - 17:53 UTC

  Mapuche violence escalates in Argentine Patagonia

  

  As Mapuche violence escalates in the Villa Mascardi area in the Department of Bariloche in the Argentine Patagonia province of Río Negro, former Security Minister and current PRO Chairwoman Patricia Bullrich Wednesday said fugitive rebel Facundo Jones-Huala was hiding there.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Jones-Huala wanted back in Chilean jail following Supreme Court decision

  

  Argentine-born Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala has been declared a fugitive by the Government of Chile after the Supreme Court overruled -albeit not unanimously- a decision from a Temuco court of appeals whereby he had been granted parole. Jones-Huala had already served the minimum time required to be granted an early release.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Ambassador says Jones-Huala may serve out his sentence in Argentina

  

  Argentina's Ambassador to Chile Rafael Bielsa Monday said the newly-paroled Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala “could serve the rest of his sentence in Argentina.”

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:37 UTC

  Chile's Gov't appeals parole granted to Mapuche leader Jones-Huala

  

  Chilean authorities have fined an appeal against the court ruling which granted parole to Mapuche leader Facundo Jones-Huala citing that “the convicted person does not meet the legal and regulatory requirements” to be eligible for the benefit, according to the brief from the Ministry of the Interior.