Controversy in Chile by Supreme Court Decision that Reversed Pre-Trial Detention of Former Undersecretary of Interior Accused of Rape

Manuel Monsalve spent six months behind bars. Cross-cutting rejection of the decision of the highest court.

Public criminal defender Víctor Providel, in charge of the defense of Manuel Monsalve, spoke just after the former Undersecretary left the prison, Captain Yáber, after the Supreme Court revoked the pretrial detention and ordered total house arrest. “We are very satisfied, very happy with the ruling of the most excellent Supreme Court (...) and gratifies our absolute conviction of the innocence of Don Manuel Monsalve of the crimes for which he is…

By four votes to one, of the lawyer member Pía Tavolari, the Supreme Court accepted this Monday the remedy of amparo filed by the former Undersecretary of the Interior of the Government of Gabriel Boric, Manuel Monsalve, and ordered his total house arrest to be carried out in his department in Viña del Mar, 120 kilometers from Santiago. The doctor and former deputy had been in pretrial detention for six months in Captain Yáber prison, after bein…

The Supreme Court accepted the remedy of amparo filed by the legal team of the former Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, who...

After Manuel Monsalve’s change of precautionary measures, it is shared on social networks that the former Undersecretary of the Interior was “free.” But this is #Falso, since in reality the precautionary measure was changed to house arrest. The post “Manuel Monsalve was released”: #Falso appeared first on Fast Check .

As usual, in the interview of ‘What was missing’, we addressed the main issues that have marked the national and international agenda. For this edition, we talked with Miguel Mellado, deputy RN and president of the Commission Investigating the Monsalve case, about the change in the precautionary measures of the former Undersecretary of the Interior, who went from pretrial detention to total house arrest, which will be carried out in Viña del Mar.