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5 Feb 2020

Author:
Wayka (Peru)

Peru: Public Prosecutor's Office requests 9 months of preventive detention for social leaders accused of kidnapping Prosegur personnel at Las Bambas mining

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[Excerpt translation from Spanish to English provided by Business & Human Rights Resouce Centre]

"Cusco: Public Prosecutor's Office requests 9 months of preventive detention for social leaders in Espinar" - 3 February 2020

Last Friday, January 31st, the Provincial Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Espinar requested 9 months of preventive detention for ten leaders of that locality in Cusco.  To date, Lieutenant Governor Abel Kana Quispe and Jorge Kana Taco, prosecutor of the board of directors, both officials from the Urinsaya community in Espinar, are being held in the Judicial Branch of Sicuani... These two are accused of kidnapping Elvis Flores Maldonado, a worker from the company PROSEGUR, which provides security services for the Las Bambas mining company [part of MMG, part of China Minmetals]. Eight other leaders are accused of being co-authors of this crime... The alleged kidnapping was allegedly committed on 30 January when the community members of Urinsaya discovered that Flores Maldonado was recording and photographing the community assemblies.  It should be noted that the leaders of Urinsaya demand the annulment of the [Supreme Decree] DS. N°017-2017-MTC, which reclassifies as national road part of the territories of the [Mining South Corridor] Corredor Minero Del Sur without having previously consulted the communities that are currently affected by the daily transportation of more than 500 vehicles that transport copper and other supplies... Thus, on January 31, the Prosecutor's Office received the complaint of Elvis Flores who accused the community members of having locked him up in his lodging.  However, this would be the beginning of a series of irregularities on the part of the Public Ministry, such as the detention of Virginia Ccaña, owner of the lodging, who according to her ex-officio lawyer, was forced to testify.

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