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    Chile: Rally-goers 'happy to see comrades free' as President Boric pardons 12 convicted after 2019 protests03:00

    Chile: Rally-goers 'happy to see comrades free' as President Boric pardons 12 convicted after 2019 protests

    Chile, Santiago
    PoliticsSociety
    December 31, 2022 at 13:34 GMT +00:00 · Published

    Dozens held a rally in Santiago on Friday to celebrate the pardon of 12 people, who had been convicted in relation to the 2019 protests in Chile.

    Footage features people getting together, greeting, hugging each other, holding flags of Chile and placards reading 'Freedom to the prisoners', 'Justice for Cristian Valdebenito', 'nothing and no one is forgotten' as well as slogans on walls around a subway station in Santiago reading 'Active Memory' and 'Freedom'.

    "They are few and we are missing a lot but we are happy today those 13 comrades are free, they can be with their families and get out of those dungeons where they should never have been," said a protester, Giannina Candia after Chile President Gabriel Boric additionally pardoned Jorge Mateluna, a 48-year-old convict connected to FPMR guerrilla.

    The 2019 protests against inequality in Chile left more than 30 dead.

    Chile: Rally-goers 'happy to see comrades free' as President Boric pardons 12 convicted after 2019 protests03:00
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    Dozens held a rally in Santiago on Friday to celebrate the pardon of 12 people, who had been convicted in relation to the 2019 protests in Chile.

    Footage features people getting together, greeting, hugging each other, holding flags of Chile and placards reading 'Freedom to the prisoners', 'Justice for Cristian Valdebenito', 'nothing and no one is forgotten' as well as slogans on walls around a subway station in Santiago reading 'Active Memory' and 'Freedom'.

    "They are few and we are missing a lot but we are happy today those 13 comrades are free, they can be with their families and get out of those dungeons where they should never have been," said a protester, Giannina Candia after Chile President Gabriel Boric additionally pardoned Jorge Mateluna, a 48-year-old convict connected to FPMR guerrilla.

    The 2019 protests against inequality in Chile left more than 30 dead.