The Superior Court of Medellinin judgment of first instance, recognized the violation to the fundamental rights of Sebastián López, a 23-year-old inmate who adjusts weeks asking for euthanasia from the Bellavista prisonin the north of the Aburrá Valley, on behalf of the deterioration from his Health.
The guardianship was filed Hernando López Henao, father of Sebastián, who argued the violation of her son’s rights by the Sixth Court of Execution of Sentences of Medellin, arguing that the body has refused to transfer him to a place “where he has the necessary conditions to lead a decent life in accordance with his state of health, where he has the appropriate treatment for their pathologies (…)”.
Since February this year, the López have a health report issued by Legal Medicine: Sebastian is afflicted by a paraplegia of lower limbs, in addition to ulcers, a colostomy that resulted in infections and, says the Superior Court, in psychological damage. EL COLOMBIANO portrayed his drama in days gone by: the young man practically he is rotting in jail.
“What the Court said is that the Sixth Court violates the rights of my brotherwhy months ago they ordered his prison detention but in a hospital. They have not fulfilled that. The same has happened with a medical appointment. They have hours to serve the sentence,” he says. John LopezSebastian’s brother
In the ruling issued by the judicial body, the Northwest Regional Legal Medicine that in a term not greater than sweet hourscounted from its notification, set a date and time for Sebastian’s medical evaluation“and send the respective legal medical opinion to the judicial authority.”
The director of the Bellavista prison, for your part, you will have to manage the corresponding procedures so that the young person can appear before Legal Medicine or, failing that, send your medical history, “if the transfer is impossible, which must be supported and documented”.
Finally, in case the decision High Court not be contestedthe Sixth Judge of Execution of Sentences of Medellin must, within a period not exceeding 48 hours, resolve requests for house arrest filed by the guardian.
