The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Peruvian State to “refrain from executing” the decision of the Constitutional Court which had authorized the anticipated release of the former head of state imprisoned for crime against humanity.
Le Monde and AFP
Alberto Fujimori will finally stay in prison. The anticipated release of the former Peruvian autocrat was rejected, Friday, April 8, by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000, Alberto Fujimori, 83 years old, purged a 25-year sentence, including two massacres perpetrated by a death squadron in 1991 and 1992 as part of the fight against guerrillas. Maoist of the bright trail. Twenty-five people, including a child, had been killed. The Constitutional Court of Peru ordered the liberation of the former head of state who suffers many health problems. She reinstated the grace granted the 2017 Christmas Eve by the President of the Pedro Pablo Kuczynski period that had been canceled in 2018 by justice.
But the Inter-American Court, based in Costa Rica, asked the Peruvian State to “refrain from executing” this decision of the Constitutional Court. The Government of Peru, led by Left President Pedro Castillo, had indicated that he comply with the decision of the Inter-American Court which, according to the judgment, considers that the decision of the Constitutional Court “did not evaluate The impact of a grace for flagrant violations of human rights on the right of access to justice of victims and their relatives “.
” We are reassured “
The relatives of the victims of the massacres welcomed the decision of the Court. “We are reassured and we feel supported”. The Court “sets consistent lines on human rights and the Peruvian state has the obligation to comply with it,” said France-Presse (AFP) Gisela Ortiz, a relative of One of the victims of death squadrons.
m. Fujimori, only inmate of Barbadillo’s little prison in a police station, had been hospitalized eleven days early March for heart problems. His family has repeatedly asked, without success, his release for health reasons.
His daughter, Keiko Fujimori, who lost three times in the second round of the presidential election had announced before the ballot of 2021 that she would graze her father if she was elected. Deatted by Mr Castillo, she continued for the illegal financing of her lost presidential campaigns in 2011 and 2016.
Alberto Fujimori ruled the Peru with a hand of iron but against a growing opposition, he had fled in November 2000 in Japan, hence his family originated, and had announced to give up his mandate by fax . Extraded Chile in 2007 He had been sentenced and imprisoned two years later.