Chile’s Human Rights Institute Questions Mapuche Prison Sentences

Director Lorena Fríes says reformed anti-terrorism law does not meet international standards. The head of Chile’s Human Rights Institute, Lorena Fríes, asserted this week that there are “sufficient grounds” to cancel the jail sentences given to four indigenous Mapuche activists earlier this year. The four men, members of the radical indigenous resistance group, Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), were given sentences of 20 and 25 years in March for an attack on government prosecutor Mario Elegueta’s motorcade in 2008. Read Article