Tag: Janine Áñez

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Bolivia: UN Rapporteur says Áñez's conviction tinted with political meddling

  

  Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Diego García-Sayán has said he saw politics had meddled in the judicial ruling whereby former Bolivian interim President Janine Àñez was sentenced to ten years in jail for crimes against the Constitution.

• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 08:13 UTC

  UN envoy due in Bolivia to monitor Áñez's trial

  

  A Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers sent by the United Nations (UN) is due in Bolivia this coming Tuesday at the invitation of the local government to assess the conditions under which former interim President Jeanine Áñez is brought to trial.

• Monday, August 23rd 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  Former Bolivian interim President harms herself in apparent suicide attempt

  

  Former Bolivian interim President Janine Áñez was hospitalized following self-inflicted injuries believed to be a suicide attempt after learning she had been charged with genocide for two massacres in the 2019 events surrounding the resignation of Evo Morales and her accession to power.

• Saturday, August 21st 2021 - 08:52 UTC

  Bolivian Prosecution files genocide charges against former President Áñez

  

  Bolivia's Attorney General Juan Lanchipa announced Friday that his office had filed charges of “genocide” against former interim President Janine Áñez for the massacre of several opposition protesters in the 2019 events which resulted in Evo Morales' resignation.