Overview
- By majority, judges Ángela Ledesma and Guillermo Yacobucci refused to habilitate the feria, while Mariano Borinsky dissented, arguing detention conditions implicate liberty.
- The appeals challenge Tribunal Oral Federal 2 rulings that cap visits at two days a week for up to three people and two hours, restrict terrace use to two hours between 6 and 20, and deny adding certain relatives and an official to an unrestricted visitor list.
- With the recess not opened, the challenges will be taken up in February when regular judicial activity resumes, leaving the current restrictions in force.
- Kirchner’s lawyers, Alberto Beraldi and Ary Llernovoy, can still ask the Supreme Court to intervene to fast-track the case, a move described in coverage as unlikely to succeed.
- The defense pressed for urgency after Kirchner was hospitalized for appendicitis and discharged, and she remains under home detention at her San José 1111 residence following her firm conviction in the Vialidad case.