The Constitutional Chamber of Costa Rica ordered the Ministry of Justice to immediately receive detainees who have spent days in the cells of the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ), which are designed for short stays while the person awaits the initial hearing. According to the sentence voted unanimously, the term for confinement in these spaces cannot exceed 72 hours.
The Ministry of Justice assured that it was the isolation protocols against COVID-19 that were delaying the reception of those deprived of liberty.
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