The former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimorisentenced to 25 years in prison, was released this Wednesday following the decision of the Constitutional Court (TC) of that country, which this Tuesday ordered his immediate release in restitution of the pardon received in 2017.
Fujimori’s supporters waited with great enthusiasm for the departure of the former president (1990-2000) at the door of the Barbadillo prison, while The relatives of the victims of the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, for which the former ruler was sentenced, protested the ruling of the TC outside the Palace of Justice.
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The political leader Keiko Fujimori and her brother Kenji entered the Lima prison where their father was being held this Wednesday afternoon. Keiko went to the penitentiary center, located in the police headquarters in the Ate district, in the east of Lima, driving a van in which she was only accompanied by Kenji and her sister-in-law.
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The lawyer of former President Fujimori, Elio Riera, had declared this Wednesday hours before that The former ruler would leave the prison when his children arrived to pick him up.
On April 7, 2009, Alberto Fujimori was sentenced by the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice to 25 years in prison. That sentence, computed from November 7, 2005, when he was confined in the prison, expired on February 10, 2032.
According to Tradesources close to the Government Palace have indicated that The government of Dina Boluarte decided to execute the ruling of the TC that orders the freedom of Alberto Fujimori. However, a statement from the government is not contemplated.
The resolution of the TC, which was signed this Tuesday by three of its current six members, with the deciding vote of the president of the organization, Francisco Morales, declared “the appeal for reconsideration was founded in the extreme of the direct and immediate execution of the sentence of the “Last March 12, relapse in the present process.”
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The Constitutional Court made this decision after Last Friday, a court in the southern region of Ica declared inadmissible a first resolution that restored the pardon..
However, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court) published a resolution this Wednesday requiring the Peruvian State to refrain from releasing the former ruler, in order to guarantee justice for the victims of human rights violations.
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The resolution, signed by the president of the Inter-American Court, Ricardo Pérez Manrique, requires Peru to do not release Fujimori until the Inter-American Court “has all the necessary elements to analyze whether said decision complies with the conditions established in the Court’s Resolution of April 7, 2022”.
In April 2022, the Inter-American Court ordered Peru to refrain from applying a ruling from the TC that ratified this pardon, as it was contrary to the rulings of the international court in the cases of the La Cantuta and Barrios Altos massacres, for which the former president was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL
*With information from EFE and AFP
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