The Constitutional Court ordered his immediate release yesterday, reinforcing the pardon the former president received in 2017 for health reasons. Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity during the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres.
We are waiting for Peru the release of the former president Alberto Fujimorisentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity, following the decision of the Constitutional Court (TC) which ordered his immediate release in restitution of the pardon received in 2017.
According to predictions He will be released from prison on Wednesday. The former Peruvian president alludes to his 85 years and fragile health to argue that he should serve the remainder of his sentence outside prison.
Yesterday, the TC ordered the release of Fujimori (1990-2000), despite the fact that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDH Court) ruled otherwise last year.
Since the news broke, Fujimori’s supporters have been eagerly awaiting the departure of the former president (1990-2000) at the door of the Barbadillo prison, while the relatives of the victims of the massacres in Barrios Altos and La Cantutafor which the former ruler was convicted, protested outside the Palace of Justice against the TC’s ruling.
The Fujimori case dates back to December 2017when the then Peruvian president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, gave him one humanitarian pardon which, however, was withdrawn by the Court a few months later, in the summer of 2018. A legal dispute was subsequently opened, the conclusion of which now appears final.
In April 2022, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court) ordered that the mercy measure be annulled and “established the reasons why the State should refrain from granting pardons ‘on humanitarian grounds’ in accordance with the Inter-American standards established in the Monitoring Resolutions of the Barrios Altos cases and La Cantuta”.
The Inter-American Court demands that Fujimori not be released
Precisely, this body has asked the Peruvian authorities to temporarily refrain from implementing the ruling of the Constitutional Court until this ruling has been examined in detail, with the aim of examining, in fact, whether it meets the criteria established in 2022 .
Believes that the prevention of “Irreparable damage on the right of access to justice” of the above victims.
“We are extremely surprised,” declared the victims’ lawyer, Carlos Rivera, emphasizing that this resolution “places the Peruvian state on the list of states that have clearly decided not to comply with a ruling of an international court. .”
In addition to his 25-year prison sentence for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, Fujimori has another advantage over him other criminal casestogether with a number of his health ministers, for the forced sterilizations during his reign to nearly 350,000 women and 25,000 men from various indigenous communities.
Source: EITB
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