2023-12-01 02:43:45
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has urged the Peruvian government not to release former president Alberto Fujimori after the country’s top constitutional court ruled to restore his pardon, in a move that is likely to provoke criticism of moves to have the former leader leave prison.
Fujimori, 85, is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses and corruption. He received a presidential pardon in 2017, although the measure was annulled twice after pressure from the IACHR.
The IACHR has now asked the Peruvian government to send the international court a report by December 6 confirming its decision not to release Fujimori, according to a letter posted by IACHR lawyer Carlos Rivera on his platform X account on Wednesday morning. -fair.
Peru’s highest constitutional court ruled this week that a previous ruling upholding the pardon was valid. A first instance judge must now confirm the decision to release Fujimori.
Peru’s Ministry of Justice said on Wednesday that the government was obliged to comply with the decision in favor of pardon.
Human rights organizations and families of abuse victims criticized the decision.
The former president, who was in power during the 1990s, was convicted of ordering the massacre of 25 people in 1991 and 1992, when his government was fighting the Shining Path guerrillas.
By Marco Aquino
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