They will present the case in Argentina to the United Nations Human Rights Committee as part of a strategy aimed at challenging the validity of the legal proceedings in the so-called Causa Vialidad.
The legal team is headed by Alberto Beraldi, who has added Brazilian lawyer Rafael Valim, a specialist in international litigation and one of the jurists who participated in the defense of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Lava Jato case, and former Spanish judge Javier Borrego, with experience in the European human rights system.
Fernandez de Kirchner’s lawyers will argue that fundamental guarantees and rights protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights were violated during the legal proceedings.
Sources from the Justicialist Party (PJ) pointed out that the presentation will be the first formal step in a strategy aimed at challenging the sentence that condemned her to six years in prison and a lifelong ban on holding public office, after the Supreme Court upheld the ruling.
The lawyers are seeking the UN body to analyze whether, during the proceedings of the case, obligations assumed by the Argentine State in matters of human rights were breached.
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