He Judiciary sentenced Alberto Rivero Valdeavellano, former member of the Navy, to 18 years in prison for the murder of the journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca and other people.
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This case dates back to 1984, when the host of Radio Huanta 2000, founder of the National Association of Journalists (ANP) at Huanta headquarters and correspondent of the newspaper La República, disappeared at a Peruvian Navy base after denouncing the massacre in the Callqui Presbyterian Church.
The oral trial, as reported by the Legal Defense Institute (IDL), began in March 2022 in the National Temporary Liquidation Criminal Chamber of the National Specialized Criminal Court, chaired by Judge Miluska Cano.
The defendants are Alberto Rivera Valdevellano and Augusto Gavilondo García del Barco, also a Navy soldier, who must be extradited from Spain. The decision on the first was made publicly. However, the ruling on the second was declared reserved.
The sentence will be computed once he is arrested. In addition, he must pay civil compensation of 100 thousand soles in favor of each of the victims’ relatives.
“Jaime Ayala had an altercation with a police officer and he accused him of being a terrorist before the military political command. After a few days, there was an intervention at his mother’s house, and the journalist went to the Navy barracks to report the incident. fact. After that he was not seen again,” the Institute says about what happened in 1984.
Juan José Quispe was the IDL lawyer who was in charge of the defense. He represented Mrs. Rosa Luz Pallqui, widow of Jaime Ayala, who finally obtained justice.
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