The statement adds that Abaigar's detention is part of a "political persecution scheme" that would include "harassment on social media," "use of artificial intelligence to create fake news," and "ideological cyber-patrolling." In other words, any state action against crime or violence is reinterpreted, through CELS's activist lens, as an act of fascist repression.
In addition, precedents such as the case of Milagro Sala, arrested for corruption and running a paramilitary organization in Jujuy, and the arrests of March 8, 2017 and June 12, 2024 are cited. In all these episodes, CELS adopts a narrative that equates crime with protest and turns violent actors into victims of a "authoritarian State."
Meanwhile, the organization remains silent in the face of threats, attacks, and hate campaigns suffered daily by current government leaders at the hands of Kirchnerist and piquetero activists. There are no statements regarding the attacks on Javier Milei, Patricia Bullrich, nor about the assaults suffered by liberal journalists and economists.
The supposed "fight for human rights" of CELS is nothing more than an ideological smokescreen to justify the violence of its political allies. The defense of Abaigar doesn't respond to a legal principle, but to partisan loyalty. As in the worst times of the Kirchnerist narrative, impunity is disguised as guaranteeism, and the perpetrators dress as the persecuted.
