from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety:
Sebastián Fajardo, accused of burning a Transantiago bus, sentenced to 3 years of remitted penalty (probation)
On January 21, Sebastián Fajardo’s sentence was delivered. We remember that Sebastián Fajardo and Eduardo Garay were arrested on January 4, 2012, accused of burning a bus during a march in commemoration of the death of Matías Catrileo; at trial Eduardo was acquitted and Sebastián was convicted.
The Fourth Oral Court in the Prison sentenced Sebastián Fajardo to 3 years of remitted penalty, which means that he will remain in the street with firm probation, under the crime of “Arson.”
After the sentencing, the defense lawyer (Alex Caroca) announced that they would look to request the nullification of the sentence in addition to indicating to the press that: “The bus was burned, there where persons who participated, there were persons who could be individualized, were characterized, there were video recordings and this was not investigated and they ended up accusing two people who were arrested randomly. This is what we claim against, that there was not an exhaustive investigation as there could have been.”
In spite of categorically rejecting “sentences” and the army itself that grants itself the justice of “sentencing” other people, we are deeply happy that Sebastián is in the street and does not have to return to prison.
Never forgetting those imprisoned and on trial
for the struggle in the streets and the social war!
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Preventive prison maintained for Juan Aliste and Freddy Fuentevilla, compas accused in the Security Case
On January 21, a hearing for the review of cautionary measures was held in the 7th Guarantee Court.
We remember that, for his part, the compañero Freddy Fuentevilla has been in preventive prison for more than 3 years, since December 15, 2009 up to now. While the compañero Juan Aliste has also remained “awaiting justice” since July 22, 2010, more than 2 years.
Both Freddy and Juan are directly implicated in the accusation regarding the death of a police officer outside of a bank. The judicial case has been paralyzed since August 30, 2012 after an eternal and indefinite appeal to the Constitutional Court.
The Court refused to change the preventive prison, keeping Juan Aliste in Module J of the High Security Prison and Freddy Fuentevilla in Module H-North, also in the High Security Prison.
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Compañero Alberto Olivares will not be transferred to Concepción, he is able to stay close to his family and friends.
After a hearing on January 21, 2013 with the purpose of discussing the situation of continual transfers of the comrade Alberto “el Nico” Olivares, former member of the FPMR and present revolutionary combatant serving a sentence for various expropriations.
After being unexpectedly transferred from Module A of the ex-Penitentiary to a maximum security module in the Concepción prison, finally Nico returned to the ex-Penitentiary and in the hearing the Court rejected the prison guards’ weak arguments and upheld Nicolás’s stay in Module A of the ex-Penitentiary
A great small victory in the seek to end the guards’ punitive transfers!
