(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 June 1999, lawyer Alberto Borea sought a writ of hábeas corpus from the Constitutional Court. The request was made on behalf of Baruch Ivcher, owner of the “Productos Paraíso” company, and Rosario Lam, former employee of the company and currently detained on allegations of tax fraud. **Updates IFEX alerts of 2 […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 22 June 1999, lawyer Alberto Borea sought a writ of hábeas
corpus from the Constitutional Court. The request was made on behalf of
Baruch Ivcher, owner of the “Productos Paraíso” company, and Rosario Lam,
former employee of the company and currently detained on allegations of tax
fraud.
**Updates IFEX alerts of 2 September and 2 July 1998 and 19 September
1997**
A request was made that due process be followed in both cases, and that Lam
be released. Nevertheless, Borea suggested that it was unlikely that the
court would rule in favour of his clients.
The lawyer explained that the request for the writ was intended to exhaust
all internal legal options, thus rendering it possible for him to have
recourse to the Inter American Human Rights Commission. Borea noted that
Ivcher and those connected to him have been subjected to a systematic
persecution.
Borea argued that there had been various irregularities in the legal
proceedings against his clients. In particular, Borea highlighted the
violations of the right to a full defense and of the principle that one
cannot be tried for an offence which did not exist as such in law at the
time the act was committed.
