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Inter-American Court of Human Rights. On 3 January 2021, the
Santiago Court of Appeals confirmed the loss of part of the judicial file, including the reserved notebooks in which the sentence handed down by Minister Jorge Zepeda Arancibia is upheld, documents that Lenin Guardia, according to his lawyer, never had access to. access. For this reason, Lenin Guardia denounced his case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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October 15, 2020, the perpetrators asked the authorities to unarchive Guardia Basso's judicial file. The request was presented to the Court of Appeals of Santiago due to a possible lack of precedents in the trial, and even if this were to proceed, their lawyers announced that they would go to the
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Favored by Law No. 19,856 for "outstanding conduct", in
January 2007 his sentence was reduced by 8 months (López Candia received 6 months). In March 2007, he requested Sunday release through the regular channels, but was denied. Since June 17, 2007, he has had the benefit of Sunday release, and the
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During the trial, the defenses of both defendants were based on different arguments: Guardia claimed innocence and pointed out that López had deceived him, while López confessed to the crimes and claimed that the attacks were for fame. He attributed
Guardia with the original idea, but he confessed
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Minister Zepeda gave out an prison sentence of 10 years and 300 days against both of the perpetrators for terrorist crimes. Lenin
Guardia's sentence was increased by 61 days for violation of the local Weapons Law, given the unregistered weapons seized at his home. On 22 October 2002, the Sixth
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Days later, Guardia and Mery met at Mery's house. Guardia took with him two envelopes with explosives similar to those in the letter bombs, and Mery referred them to the minister in charge of the case, Jorge Zepeda, who tried to obtain more information from
Guardia. He refused, so the minister
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In March 2002, Humberto López Candia acknowledged through a letter of repentance that he had fraudulently involved
Guardia in the attacks, a situation that he had already sustained in the only confrontation to which Minister Jorge Zepeda Arancibia submitted them.
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at the time) for the false information, which claimed that a certain "José Antipán" was the reorganizer of the FPMR. Subsequently, these payments for information to
Guardia would be denied by the undersecretary of the interior,
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