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Lima, March 17 (EFE) .- The ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC) of Peru in favor of the release of former president Alberto Fujimori unleashed a wave of indignation among activists in the country, who consider it a dangerous precedent for violating human rights , and they hope that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IA Court) will leave it without effect.
“It is very sad and frustrating for the victims, their families and for the country. It is a very outrageous and very dangerous measure because there is a setback in the court’s line of argument,” the executive secretary of the National Human Rights Coordinator told Efe ( Cnddhh), Jannie Dador.
Dador added that this “attack on democratic institutions” in Peru is “contrary to internal regulations and human rights standards” and assured that for this reason spontaneous mobilizations are taking place in different parts of the country, including Lima.
“Our hopes are pinned on the Inter-American Court,” explained the Cnddhh secretary, who along with five other organizations sent a series of petitions to the autonomous judicial body of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Monday night.
In the document, to which Efe has had access, the entities urge the court to issue a resolution that nullifies the decision of the Peruvian high court to declare the appeal filed once morest the sentence that annulled the humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori, who At 83, he is serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes once morest humanity.
“We hope that the court grants us the hearing that we have requested so that the Peruvian State responds to this latest measure that violates the victims’ right to justice,” the legal head of the Association for Human Rights agreed in statements to Efe ( Aprodeh), Gloria Cano.
Cano also criticized the fact that the TC’s decision was given outside of a public debate, as requested, and that, on the contrary, it was carried out “with strict secrecy”, also introducing “new circumstances such as Alberto Fujimori’s current health conditions”.
In this regard, Carlos Rivera, lawyer for the relatives of the Barrios Altos (1991) and La Cantuta (1992) crimes, for which the former president was convicted, told Efe that Fujimori’s circumstances are “identical to those of the year 2017 and 2018”, when the then president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, granted him a pardon and then the court annulled it for irregularities.
“(This) nonsense has no legal or constitutional or international law arguments,” added Rivera, who also mentioned the “substantial change” in the composition of the TC, which currently has six members and not the usual seven. since September of last year, following the death of Judge Carlos Ramos.
Even more forceful was former Prime Minister Mirtha Vásquez, a lawyer and human rights defender, who assured that this court decision “runs over the memory and the right to justice of the victims of the dictatorship of the 90s.”
Through his Twitter account, Vásquez called on the Castillo government, of which he was a member during the management of his third ministerial cabinet, to “go immediately” to the Inter-American Court and “guarantee that there is no impunity.”
Along the same lines, the former Minister of Culture Gisela Ortiz, sister of one of the victims of the La Cantuta massacre, expressed herself in statements to the RPP station, who also questioned the lack of bias of the high court.
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