Daniel Urresti will continue in prison for the murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos. He Judiciary rejected the request for annulment presented by the former minister’s legal defense and did not apply the Law 32107 approved by the Congress and that prescribes crimes against humanity.
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Instead, the judicial system made use of diffuse control, established in article 138 of the Political Constitution. According to prosecutor Carlos Palomino Quispe, the law 32107 It contravenes the Magna Carta and the standards of international law, which is why the norm should not be applied in this case.
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It is necessary to highlight that Law Against Humanity It is described by the relatives of the victims as the “law of impunity”, since it benefits former members of the security forces prosecuted for crimes against humanity and prescribes acts committed between 1980 and 2000.
For their part, human rights organizations have pointed out that the implementation of this law endangers emblematic judicial processes such as cases of Upper Neighborhoods, La Cantuta, Accomarca and Cayara. Furthermore, they affirm that this law contradicts the international commitments that Peru has assumed before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Inter-American Court).
In 2024, the Supreme Court determined that the murder of Hugo Bustíos It constituted a serious violation of human rights, which made it imprescriptible, even without being classified as a crime against humanity.
Prosecutor’s Office pronounces
Through a statement, the Prosecutor’s Office welcomed the decision of the Judiciary in ratifying the sentence against Daniel Urresti. The Public Ministry stated that it valued international jurisprudence in emblematic cases such as La Cantuta, in accordance with conventional law standards.
Statement from the Prosecutor’s Office
Daniel Urresti was sentenced to 12 years for the Hugo Bustíos case
On April 12, 2023, the Third National Superior Criminal Court of the Judicial Branch sentenced Daniel Urresti Elera to 12 years in prison as co-author of the murder of the Ayacucho journalist Hugo Bustíoswhich occurred on November 24, 1988 in Huanta, Ayacucho. In addition, the sentence declared him guilty of attempted murder against the reporter Eduardo Rojas.
On November 24, 1988, while covering information in one of the areas most affected by the internal armed conflict, the correspondent for Caretas magazine was ambushed and murdered by a military patrol.
The case went through various judicial phases and was reopened after the appearance of new testimonies that implicated Urresti, who at that time was an Army officer. After a lengthy process, the conviction was confirmed in August 2024, when the Supreme Court ratified the 12-year prison sentence. Currently, Urresti is serving his sentence in the Miguel Castro Castro prison.
