Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
On December 28, 2022, Bolivian democratic opposition leader and Governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, was violently arrested on false "terrorism" charges, and has since been locked up and isolated inside the maximum security prison of Chonchocoro, La Paz, located at 4,000 meters above sea level. The real reason for Governor Camacho's imprisonment is that, in 2019, he led, alongside indigenous civil society leader Marco Pumari (who is also wrongfully imprisoned), countrywide, non-violent demonstrations against the Organization of American States-certified election fraud that was committed by then-president Evo Morales and his authoritarian government. Two months after Governor Camacho's violent arrest, HRF submitted a legal petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, on Camacho's behalf, asking for his unconditional release.
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On December 28, 2022, Bolivian democratic opposition leader and Governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, was violently arrested on false "terrorism" charges, and has since been locked up and isolated inside the maximum security prison of Chonchocoro, La Paz, located at 4,000 meters above sea level. The real reason for Governor Camacho's imprisonment is that, in 2019, he led, alongside indigenous civil society leader Marco Pumari (who is also wrongfully imprisoned), countrywide, non-violent demonstrations against the Organization of American States-certified election fraud that was committed by then-president Evo Morales and his authoritarian government. Two months after Governor Camacho's violent arrest, HRF submitted a legal petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, on Camacho's behalf, asking for his unconditional release.
Learn more about our work at the Human Rights Foundation:
Website: hrf.org
X (formerly Twitter): https://X.com/HRF
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Subscribe to HRF’s Substack: humanrightsfoundation.substack.com
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