Chile investigates into Eastern European 'interference' in protests

Chile has started an investigation into “excessive internet traffic” for a probable interference of an Eastern European country in weeks for protests. Chilean Foreign Minister Teodoro Ribero said that investigating ncies are looking into a case of direct international interference. He alleged creation of “false profiles” but did t divulge any details on nature of interference. 

"What we do kw is that in days after October 18, re was an important share of internet use coming from a country in Eastern Europe to Chile," said Ribero without naming country. 

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US accused Russia

Last month, United States h accused Russia of meddling in Chile’s internal affairs but couldn’t corroborate it with substantive evidence. Russian denied Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov allegations and blamed United States of taking vant of “difficult internal situation” in Chile to belittle Russia’s foreign policy. 

protesters have been demanding improved services with social and ecomic equality. weeks-long demonstrations turned violent over a period of time and claimed at least 23 lives. protests started against a hike in subway fares which soon took a massive form demanding a bro range of changes.

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Human Rights Watch on protests

On vember 26, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Chile’s national police of committing serious human rights violations including use of excessive force on people in streets and abuses in detention. 

“re are hundreds of worrying reports of excessive force on streets and abuse of detainees, including brutal beatings and sexual abuse, that should be promptly and thoroughly investigated to ensure victims’ access to justice,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch.

Officials of New York-based human rights organisation met Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera and recommended a series of reforms. y urged Piñera to review powers of police to detain anyone in order to ensure safeguards against arbitrary use of ‘stop and detain’ powers. organisation also vised Chilean President to enforce existing ban on strip-searching of people detained during protests and punish officers who continue that practice.

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(With inputs from ncies)