Prisoners of the 2019–2021 Chilean protests

[1] Deputy Maite Orsini has exemplified this with two young men who spent 431 and 457 days in preventive detention only to be condemned for minor offences that did not result in prison sentences.

[6] According to news site Ex-Ante among the Prisoners of the Revolt are people accused or condemned for making and throwing Molotov cocktails including one thrown at Chilean police, theft of a pickup truck, arson attempt at a shoe shop and looting of a Líder hypermarket.

[10] The demand for the release of the Prisoners of the Revolt is supported by left-wing groups such as the Broad Front, the Communist Party of Chile and The List of the People.

Among the supporters were Camila Vallejo, Tomás Hirsch, Adriana Muñoz, Isabel Allende, Yasna Provoste, Juan Ignacio Latorre and Alejandro Navarro.

[7] Shortly after being elected President and Vice-President of the Constitutional Convention, Elisa Loncón and Jaime Bassa declared their aim to discuss a formal petition for the release of the prisoners.

[12][13] In one of its first agreements after being formed, the Constitutional Convention published a statement on 7 July 2021 for the release of the "political prisoners" of the protests and the Mapuche conflict, calling the Congress to approve the proposed law for pardon and amnesty.