In April 2021, in a police intelligence operation, Juan Pablo Pirce was arrested on charges of possession of explosives and weapons linked to the Mapuche struggle. He is currently incarcerated in Valdivia prison.
On 24 March 2022, Juan Pirce began a hunger strike, which was announced at the hearing to review Juan’s precautionary measure. The comrade pointed out before the court:
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office, following the line of the government, has acted negligently in the way this investigation has been conducted, and has thus unnecessarily extended my imprisonment and isolation. The Public Prosecutor’s Office is acting in a self-serving, biased and seditious manner against me, in absolute complicity with the Ministry of the Interior, today with a new government, but of the same State … As a consequence of this unnecessary extension, and the claim that I have been judged in a fair and reasonable time, I want to tell the court that, from this minute and as a sign of protest against the Public Ministry, the Ministry of the Interior and the courts of guarantees that have troubled the prisons of political prisoners, I begin an indefinite hunger strike … I represent the social struggle and the freedom of political prisoners”.
The court rejected the request of the defence and kept Juan in pre-trial detention.
Solidarity with all those who rebel and stand in solidarity against the state!
Machine-assisted translation of the following Spanish-language post from the ‘Publicacion Refractario’ blog: https://publicacionrefractario.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/wallmapu-juan-pirce-en-huelga-de-hambre-contra-su-prision-preventiva/
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