The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDH Court) published a resolution this Wednesday condemning the State of Peru to refrain from releasing former President Alberto Fujimori to ensure justice for the victims of human rights violations.
Also read: Peru’s Constitutional Court orders the release of former President Fujimori
“Require State of Peru that, in order to guarantee the right of access to justice for the victims of the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases, refrain from implementing the order of the Constitutional Court of Peru of December 4, 2023 ordering ‘immediate freedom’ Alberto Fujimori Fujimori”, indicates the resolution published this Wednesday by the Inter-American Court and dated December 5.
The resolution of urgent measures signed by the President of the HofIDH, Ricardo Pérez Manrique demands that Peru not release Fujimori “until the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has all the necessary elements to analyze whether the said decision meets the conditions laid down in the Court’s Resolution of April 7, 2022 “.
This regulation is issued after the Constitutional Court of Peru ordered his immediate release.
“This Constitutional Court orders that the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and the Director of the Barbadillo Prison (where he is imprisoned) order the immediate release of the beneficiary person on the same day, Alberto Fujimorireads a statement from the TC.
The resolution, which was signed by three of the current six members of the TC, with the casting vote of the organization’s president, Francisco Morales, stated that “the call for reconsideration was founded on the end of the direct and immediate implementation of the TC. judgment of March 12 last year, relapse in the current trial”.
Last Friday, a court in the southern region of Ica declared inadmissible an initial Constitutional Court resolution that reinstated the pardon policy. Fujimori and sent the case back to the TC.
Supreme Court President Francisco Morales had declared that authorities should “proceed to the immediate release” of Fujimori, in violation of two Inter-American Court resolutions.
Source: El heraldo
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