The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICC) has demanded that the Peruvian government “refrain from enforcing” the Constitutional Court’s decision to release former President Alberto Fujimori, who has been convicted of crimes against humanity.
Alberto Fujimori, 83, president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, has been serving a 25-year prison sentence since 2009, mainly for two massacres he committed during the 1991-1992 death row in the war against the Maoists. guerrillas of the Bright Path.
Twenty-five people, including a child, had been killed.
Peru’s Constitutional Court on March 17th ordered the release of the former head of state, who has several health problems. He specifically restored the grace that was given to him at Christmas 2017 by the then president Pedro Pablo Kucinski, but a decision that was annulled in 2018 by justice.
According to the Costa Rican-based ICC ruling, the decision of the Peruvian Constitutional Court to reinstate the pardon granted by the former president “did not take into account the impact of the pardon for blatant human rights violations in the the right of access to justice for victims and their relatives “.
The Peruvian government, led by Pedro Castillo, who was elected president in the colors of the radical left, has made it clear that it will abide by the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Relatives of the victims of the massacres welcomed the decision of the ICC with relief. “We are reassured, we feel supported,” the court set “clear human rights limits and the Peruvian state has an obligation to comply,” Gisela Ortiz, the mother of one of the victims, told AFP.
Mr Fujimori, the only detainee in the small Barvadigio prison inside the Peruvian police’s special operations barracks in the eastern part of the capital, was hospitalized for 11 days in early March with heart problems.
His family has asked countless times, in vain, to be released for health reasons.
His daughter, Keiko Fujimori, who lost three times in the second round of the presidential election, had announced before the 2021 election that she would thank her father if he was elected.
Following her defeat by Mr Castillo, she is being prosecuted for illegally financing her 2011 and 2016 election campaigns.
Alberto Fujimori ruled Peru with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000, but faced with scandals and war crimes investigations and growing opposition pressure, he was forced to flee to Japan, his family’s home country. November 2000, after submitting his resignation by fax. Published in 2007 by Chile. He was convicted by Peruvian justice two years later.
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