2023-12-07 10:54:30
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was released this Wednesday following the release order issued by the Constitutional Court, which addressed his claims related to health issues despite the fact that Human Rights organizations continue to warn of the seriousness of his crimes.
Freedom for Fujimori
Thus, the former president left the Barbadillo prison at 6:30 p.m. (local) and despite the fact that a day earlier the Inter-American Court of Human Rights had asked to postpone his release until the Constitutional ruling was studied in detail, which apparently put an end to years of legal disputes.
After his release, he has been transferred to the home of his daughter and former presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, which in principle will be his permanent residence. “The moment we have been waiting for for more than 16 years has arrived. Thank God!” Keiko Fujimori celebrated on social networks, along with an image of the family.
Dozens of supporters of the former Peruvian president had gathered outside the prison waiting for Fujimori to be released from prison, an objective pursued by him and his team of lawyers for years, but which Justice has prevented on several occasions.
The sentence that Fujimori served
Fujimori was serving a 25-year sentence for the massacres of civilians in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. However, in December 2017 he benefited from a humanitarian pardon granted by the then president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, but which the Justice Department overturned just a few months later, in the summer of 2018. After several years of work by the former president’s team of lawyers alleging health problems due to his advanced age, the Constitutional Court has ended up giving the ‘green light’ to his release.
In addition to his sentence to 25 years in prison for the massacres of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, Fujimori has another criminal trial ahead of him, along with several of his Ministers of Health, for the forced sterilizations of almost 350,000 women and 25,000 men from different communities. indigenous during his government.
For the director of the Americas office of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Juanita Goebertus, “Fujimori’s release is a slap in the face to the victims of atrocities,” which is why she has suggested to the Organization of American States (OAS) that examine its progress, taking into account “the context of the very serious erosion of the rule of law and the protection of Human Rights in Peru.”
“Peru has released Fujimori on the basis of a humanitarian pardon that is flawed and once morest the orders of the main human rights court in the Americas,” said Goebertus, who places Peru at the level of Nicaragua and Venezuela in terms of ignore the inter-American system.
For this reason, the head of HRW has indicated that “the international community must pressure the government to comply with its international obligations, including the decisions of the Inter-American Court.”
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