Campillai stated in a letter addressed to President Jose Antonio Kast that granting benefits to those convicted of those crimes would set a dangerous precedent: the punishment of the most serious crimes could be subject to short-term political decisions.

The senator lost her sight, and the sense of smell and taste after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by a police officer during the 2019 protests.

The lawmaker was unanimously elected this week as the president of the Senate’s Human Rights Commission.

Campillai asks the president in the letter not to support a bill currently being debated in the National Congress that would commute sentences under humanitarian pretexts for those who committed crimes against humanity during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).

The letter was also endorsed by the National Coordinating Committee of Human Rights Organizations.

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