"The Bolivian Supreme Court of Justice on Wednesday annulled the 10-year prison sentence handed down to former interim President Jeanine Anez in 2022 and ordered her immediate release. According to the newspaper La Razon, the court's president, Romer Saucedo, said the verdict against her was declared null and void because the underlying criminal law had been amended retrospectively. According to Saucedo, the sentence was overturned based on "several arguments" and the vote of seven of the nine justices."
"In June 2022, Anez was convicted for making unconstitutional decisions and breaching her duties as interim president. Anez ascended to the presidency after the resignation of left-wing leader Evo Morales under pressure from the military and amid allegations of electoral fraud in 2019. The political crisis led to mass protests, which resulted in 37 deaths. Morales fled the country but was able to return after Luis Arce, the leading candidate of the left-wing MAS party, won the presidential election in October 2020."
Bolivia’s Supreme Court of Justice annulled Jeanine Anez’s 10-year sentence, ordered her immediate release and directed a political retrial after finding retrospective changes to criminal law and due process violations. The ruling was supported by seven of nine justices and was framed as necessary to guarantee the right to a fair trial. Anez had been imprisoned for over four years following a June 2022 conviction for making unconstitutional decisions and breaching duties as interim president after Evo Morales’s 2019 resignation amid protests and allegations of electoral fraud. The 2025 election produced Rodrigo Paz Pereira, ending nearly two decades of left-wing rule.
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