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“We went to accompany the mothers of political prisoners in a peaceful protest when we were invaded by this contingent (of the police),” said Rodrigo Rojas, another member of the movement who attended the protest.
Perez and Woldarsky had joined a group of protesters that say the Chilean government took political prisoners during massive, and sometimes violent, demonstrations over inequality that took place in late 2019. The government has rejected the allegations that the detentions were politically-motivated.
Those protests opened the door to a referendum last October in which Chileans voted to rewrite the current constitution – drafted during Augusto Pinochet’s 1973-1990 military dictatorship.
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