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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 17 June 2025
1. Activists wearing in oversized masks that resemble judges outside the house of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
2. Posters supporting Cristina Fernández
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Norma Luján, demonstrator:
"We want Cristina to be free. What is happening to her is unjust. (President Javier) Milei, (former President Mauricio) Macri and all his cronies should be in jail, not Cristina. Cristina is the people. The Peronist government has always been with the people. That’s all. I love you, Cristina. I love you."
4. A sign reads that reads "Free Cristina"
5. A graffiti reads (Spanish) "always with you, CFK (the acronym of the former president)"
6. People singing the Peronist anthem
7. An elderly woman holding a book about Evita shouts UPSOUND (Spanish) "I love you with all my heart"
STORYLINE:
Supporters of former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner rallied in Buenos Aires on Tuesday after she was ordered to serve her six-year prison sentence for corruption at home.
The demonstration was held on the street that the former president lives in.
Earlier in the day, federal court judges ruled that Fernández, 72, can serve time in the apartment where she lives with her daughter and her granddaughter, citing her age and security reasons.
Fernández was the victim of an attempted assassination three years ago.
In the ruling, obtained by The Associated Press, the court said that Fernández “must remain at the registered address, an obligation that she may not break except in exceptional situations.”
The court also ordered that Fernández be placed under the watch of an electronic surveillance device to monitor her movements.
Last week, Argentina’s highest court upheld Fernández’s sentence in a ruling that permanently banned her from public office over the corruption conviction that found she had directed state contracts to a friend while she was the first lady and president.
The ruling barred Fernández from running in this fall’s Buenos Aires legislative election just days after she launched her campaign.
Fernández was embroiled in multiple corruption scandals during her tenure. She was convicted in 2022 of corruption in a case that centered on 51 public contracts for public works awarded to companies linked to Lázaro Báez, a convicted construction magnate and friend of the presidential couple, at prices 20% above the standard rate in a project that cost the state tens of millions of dollars.
Fernández has questioned the impartiality of the judges. She claimed that her defense didn’t have access to much of the evidence and that it was gathered without regard to legal deadlines.
AP Video shot by Victor R. Caivano
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