Human Rights and Public Protests in Chile during 2011: the public hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
The large scale public protests that took place in Chile in 2011 were met with violence on the part of the State: the right to freedom of assembly was curtailed, protesters were subjected to harsh repression and those detained were even tortured. In the face of this treatment, a group of students a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad de Chile
2012-07-01
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| Series: | Anuario de Derechos Humanos |
| Online Access: | https://anuariocdh.uchile.cl/index.php/ADH/article/view/20574 |
| Summary: | The large scale public protests that took place in Chile in 2011 were met with violence on the part of the State: the right to freedom of assembly was curtailed, protesters were subjected to harsh repression and those detained were even tortured. In the face of this treatment, a group of students along with lawyers from the Citizens Advisory Program of Instituto Igualdad brought their case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights so as to present these human rights violations in a public hearing. This article describes the context in which the decision was made to bring the matter before this international body, the content of the claim presented to the Inter-American Commission, as well as the State’s answer and the Commission’s reaction to the presentation of these facts. |
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| ISSN: | 0718-2058 0718-2279 |