The president of the Inter -American Court of Human RightsNancy Hernández López, requires the Peruvian State “immediately” the process of the project of Amnesty Law in order to guarantee the right of access to justice to the victims in cases neighborhoods and the Cantuta.
In the case, the Government does not suspend the process of the “law granted by amnesty to the members of the Armed Forces, the National Police of Peru and the Self -Defense Committees that participated in the fight against terrorism between the 1980s and 2000s,” the IDH Court asks the justice system to refrain from applying said rule in the aforementioned cases.
This must be respected “so that (the law) does not take legal effects until the Inter -American Court of Human Rights has all the necessary elements and pronounced on the fund of the aforementioned request for expansion of provisional measures and its impact on the High neighborhood cases and the Cantuta resolved by the Court. “
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IDH Court cites the State to Public Hearing
Likewise, the president of the International Court summons a public hearing to the State of Peru, the representatives of the victims of the cases neighborhoods and the Cantuta and the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights.
The meeting will deal with the provisional measures and the application for extension made by the representatives. It will take place in person on Thursday, August 21, 2025, from 5:15 p.m. at 7:00 p.m., at the headquarters of the Inter -American Court, located in San José, Costa Rica, during the 179th ordinary session of the Court.
“Provide that the Secretariat of the Court notifies this resolution to the State of Peru, to the representatives of the victims of both cases and the Inter -American Commission on Human Rights,” reads the resolution.
Victims demand justice
On Monday, June 17, 2024, the Inter -American Court of Human Rights made the public hearing for the application for provisional measures in the cases of Altos and Cantuta neighborhoods, regarding the first vote approval by the Congress of the so -called ‘Amnesty Law’, which proposes to declare inapplicable the crime against humanity before 2002.
In that sense, the representative of the relatives of the victims, Gisela OrtizHe indicated that the Peruvian State is not guaranteeing the rights of the relatives and assured that during the last 40 years they have carried out various actions to find justice through an impartial investigation. He stressed that the authorities, so far, have not managed to find the whereabouts of the “human rights violators” in their cases.
“We are here to defend our right to truth and justice, rights that the Peruvian State is not guaranteeing. During these 30 and 40 years, we have been the relatives of the victims who have been actively demanding not only an impartial investigation and the individualization of those responsible who made the violation of human rights, but also effective conviction IDH Court Hearing.
