Buenos Aires, November 19 (NA) – the Oral Court in Criminal Matters No. 2 resolved to modify the visiting regime for Cristina Kirchner, considering that the former president failed to comply with the conditions of her house arrest by receiving nine people simultaneously at her home without the necessary judicial authorization.
The decision, signed this Tuesday, responds to a publication made last November 17 from the verified account of Fernández de Kirchner on the social network X, in which she reported on an encounter at her house with a group of economists, on the occasion of Militant's Day. According to her, the group presented her with an economic document of more than 400 pages on behalf of more than eighty professionals.
Although the people who participated in the encounter appeared on a list presented by the defense on November 12, the requested authorization did not contemplate the simultaneous meeting of all visitors.
Therefore, the judge in charge of monitoring the execution of the sentence considered that the event was held without prior authorization and violated the established rules. The resolution states that this type of meeting “does not fit with the logic of restriction that characterizes the exceptional regime of house arrest” and that it distorts its punitive nature.
In addition, it establishes that henceforth unauthorized visits must be requested individually, with a concrete justification, and scheduled date and time.
The new regime set by the court imposes that visits cannot exceed two hours in duration, will be allowed up to two times per week, and no more than three people may attend at a time.
Likewise, general authorization is maintained only for direct family members, treating physicians, defense attorneys, and police custody, in accordance with the already approved lists.
The ruling also annulled a previous authorization from November 14, and ordered the Directorate of Control and Assistance of Penal Execution to supervise compliance with these new guidelines, with detailed reports of each entry into the home.
Finally, the court warned that in the event of new non-compliances, the house arrest modality may be reviewed and eventually revoked, in accordance with article 34 of law 24.660.
