Overview
- Rial remains in Women’s Unit No. 51 in Magdalena after a Buenos Aires court revoked her pretrial release for missing court check-ins and failing to verify mandated therapy and livelihood.
- Her attorneys say she is isolated in a small cell area commonly called “buzones,” with reports that she is distressed and initially refused food, while prison psychological attention is being arranged.
- Defense lawyers Alejandro Cipolla and Martín Leiro plan to request house arrest and have floated a habeas corpus if her condition worsens, citing psychiatric issues and asking for formal evaluations.
- From custody, Rial posted Instagram stories promising to resume content, soliciting advertising to generate income, and thanking Cipolla, while a separate handwritten letter denied wanting her child to visit and requested videocalls instead.
- Images of her handcuffed transfer circulated widely as her father, journalist Jorge Rial, said on air that her release was revoked for noncompliance and that she receives no special treatment.