STORY: Ruth Nina, the leader of the Pan-Bol party and ally of former Bolivian president Evo Morales, was transferred to a women's prison on Saturday (July 26) where she must serve a 90-day preventive detention sentence.

The Bolivian justice system determined that Nina must serve the sentence while an investigation process develops for the statements she made during an event in Cochabamba, where she threatened that the August 17 elections could result in fatalities rather than votes if the Supreme Electoral Tribunal didn't approve Morales's candidacy for the upcoming elections.

Before entering the women's prison in Cochabamba, Ruth Nina declared that it was “an honour” to enter the prison.

Morales' supporters have declared they would mobilise if the Tribunal does not register him as a candidate, warning that the elections would not be democratic without him.

Morales' new political organisation, Evo Pueblo, lacks legal recognition, as does the Pan-Bol party, with which he seeks to register for the elections.

In June, Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Court disqualified Evo Morales for the elections, the court cited that the deadline for candidacy submissions had passed.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

SHOWS: COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (JULY 24, 2025) (RED BOLIVISION – Must on screen courtesy Red Bolivision / No use Bolivia) (MUTE)

1. PAN-BOL POLITICAL PARTY LEADER AND EVO MORALES' ALLY, RUTH NINA, EXITING VEHICLE TO ATTEND HEARING

COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (JULY 24, 2025) (TDT MULTIMEDIA - Must on screen courtesy TDT Multimedia)

2. VARIOUS OF RUTH NINA ENTERING BUILDING TO ATTEND HEARING

COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (JULY 12, 2025) (RADIO KAUSACHUM COCA - Must on screen courtesy Radio Kausachum Coca / No resale)

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LEADER OF PAN-BOL POLITICAL PARTY, RUTH NINA, SAYING:

“We have decided that on August 17 we prefer to give our lives rather than allow them to force us to choose their right-wing candidates. And that day, brothers, the Electoral Tribunal and the Government, instead of counting votes, will count the dead. That is what will happen if they attack our indigenous communities, if they force us to vote for them.”

COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (JULY 24, 2025) (RED BOLIVISION – Must on screen courtesy Red Bolivision / No use Bolivia)

4. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LEADER OF PAN-BOL POLITICAL PARTY, RUTH NINA, SAYING:

“It is an honour to surrender my life and freedom for the people, for our homeland, it is an honour to be here.”

5. (MUTE) NINA INSIDE A POLICE CELL AFTER HER APPREHENSION WAS DETERMINED FOLLOWING HER STATEMENT

6. (MUTE) EXTERIOR OF CELLS OF THE SPECIAL CRIME FIGHTING FORCE

COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (JULY 26, 2025) (ATB – Must on-screen courtesy ATB / No use Bolivia)

7. NINA IN HANDCUFFS ENTERING THE SAN SEBASTIAN WOMEN'S PRISON, SHOUTING (Spanish): “It is an honour to be jailed for our people, for our women, so that they will never again silence us.”

COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (JULY 26, 2025) (TDT MULTIMEDIA - Part must on screen courtesy TDT Multimedia)

8. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RUTH NINA'S LAWYER, GABRIEL DELGADILLO, SAYING:

“A right to freedom has been violated, there are less burdensome measures such as preventive detention, precautionary detention, however she has been given three months of detention, it is totally unjust, illegal.”

COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (JULY 26, 2025) (RADIO KAWSACHUN COCA - Must on screen courtesy Radio Kawsachun Coca / No resale)

9. VARIOUS OF EVO MORALES' SUPPORTERS HOLDING HIS PHOTOGRAPHS AT AN EVENT TO RECOGNIZE HIS CAREER

10. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) FORMER PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA, EVO MORALES, SAYING:

“They know that we are going to win, and as we are going to win they steal our party, they do the same to other parties, they threaten, until now they keep threatening us, although I do not lose hope.”

11. SUPPORTERS APPLAUDING AS CAKE LIT WITH SPARKLER IN ACT TO RECOGNISE MORALES' CAREER, MORALES APPLAUDING