Three magistrates of the Constitutional Court of Peru, with the casting vote of the president of the collegiate, have accepted this Thursday a habeas corpus in favor of the release of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed by the Colina military detachment during his Government.
The appeal was filed by the lawyer Gregorio Parco, who questioned the prison because the former president “is an 82-year-old person, in poor health, he is no longer a danger to society.”
The vote was tied three to three, but Judge Augusto Ferrero asserted his casting vote. Human rights organizations yesterday asked the court to refrain from voting in this case because in 2017 he met with Keiko Fujimori – the eldest daughter of the autocrat – and with Fujimorist congressmen who supported Ferrero’s candidacy to the Constitutional Court.
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