San José, Costa Rica, February 28, 2023. In the Judgment notified today in the Case of Baraona Bray v. Chile, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the State of Chile internationally responsible for the violations of the rights to freedom of thought and expression, to the principle of legality and judicial protection, to the detriment of Carlos Baraona Bray. This resulted from the criminal proceedings and the sentence imposed for the crime of serious insults for statements issued by Mr. Baraona Bray in May 2004 regarding the actions of a senator, in his capacity as a public official, related to illegal logging of the alerce (Patagonian Cypress) tree.