The Peruvian Constitutional Court declared the habeas corpus granted to former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) justified and ordered his “immediate” release.
The former president is incarcerated in Barbadillo prison, where he is serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity.
“This Constitutional Court orders the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and the Director of the Barbadillo Prison to order the immediate release on this day under the responsibility of the beneficiary, Alberto Fujimori,” said the resolution published on the Constitutional Court’s website Court has been published. .
The judicial authority responsible for the interpretation of the Peruvian Magna Carta decided to draw “significant attention” to Judge Vicente Fernández Tapia, charged with executing the release order approved last week by the Constitutional Court, but declared the decision null and void receptive.
The judges of the Constitutional Court “urged” Judge Fernández Tapia “to put in more hard work and diligence in carrying out his duties in executing judgments granting habeas corpus, as in the case of former President Fujimori.”
The Constitutional Court has declared valid the appeal for restoration of habeas corpus granted to Fujimori in March 2022.
The former Peruvian president took advantage of his age of 85 and poor health to demand that he serve the remainder of his sentence outside prison.
Last week, the Constitutional Court sent the decision to reinstate Fujimori’s presidential pardon to the Court of Ica – where the 2022 habeas corpus arose – although the judge in charge of the case, the aforementioned Fernández Tapia, refused such a decision to provide. . declare the judgment inadmissible.
Fujimori’s case dates back to December 2017, when then Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski granted him a humanitarian pardon, which was however revoked by the court a few months later, in the summer of 2018.
In March 2022, the Constitutional Court declared a habeas corpus presented by Fujimori’s legal team established, which specifically referred to his health and indicated that it had deteriorated since the revocation of the pardon granted by Kuczynski.
In addition to his 25-year prison sentence for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, Fujimori and several of his health ministers are once again facing a criminal trial for the forced sterilization of nearly 350,000 women and 25,000 men from several indigenous communities during their mandates .
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Source: La Neta Neta
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