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Court Keeps Tight House-Arrest Limits on Cristina Kirchner During Recess

Her bid to ease detention terms was rebuffed during the judicial recess, pushing any change to after the courts return in February.

Overview

  • Under a six-year Vialidad sentence served at home, Tribunal Oral Federal No. 2 caps her visits at three people for up to two hours, three days per week.
  • During the summer judicial recess, the Casación feria panel declined to take up her petitions, with judges Ángela Ledesma and Guillermo Yacobucci voting no and Mariano Borinsky dissenting.
  • Her defense sought removal of the electronic ankle monitor, standing approval for regular visitors, and looser limits on visit numbers, duration, and terrace use, requests rejected in limine.
  • With conditions unchanged, she has pared back in-person political activity and is reserving most visit slots for family while continuing to guide Peronist legislative blocs remotely.
  • She filed the requests after a January 3 discharge from surgery for acute appendicitis with localized peritonitis, and the matter now awaits review once the recess ends in February.