After it was made public the order given by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) to the Peruvian State to abstain to carry out the sentence of constitutional Court that restored the pardon to the former president Alberto Fujimori, congressmen from various benches expressed their position. The document of the international judicial body was given in the expectation of a prompt release of the convicted person from his confinement in the Barbadillo prison.
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Through her social networks, the parliamentarian Sigrid Bazan (Together for Peru) showed its position in favor of what was dictated by the IACHR and remembered the victims of the massacres perpetrated during the fujimorista decade. “The State must guarantee the right to justice of the victims of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, therefore, it must refrain from releasing the sentenced Alberto Fujimori, as indicated by the Inter-American Court in this document. The crimes of the Fujimori dictatorship are not forgotten! ”, He wrote on his Twitter account.
Sigrid Bazán speaks out. Photo: Twitter
In this same sense, the congressman for Peru Libre (PL) also spoke Jaime Quitowho urged the State to comply with what was indicated by the Court, in addition to qualifying the TC as a “fujitribunal”. “The Peruvian State must comply with the resolution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and not release the dictator Fujimori, convicted of the crimes of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta. The TC exposes us as a country to that international shame, becoming a fujitribunal of impunity, ”, he sentenced.
The congressman for Peru Libre (PL) Jaime Quito also spoke. Photo: Twitter
On the other hand, Congressman Jose Cueto Aservifrom the Renovación Popular caucus, expressed a total rejection of the IACHR document, an opinion that had previously been shared by his fellow bench member Jorge Montoya before the possible intervention in this case.
“I express my absolute rejection of the Inter-American Court’s claim that the ruling of the Constitutional Court ordering the release of former President Alberto Fujimori not be executed. This attitude, in addition to being arrogant, is a flagrant violation of the political and constitutional sovereignty of Peru, ”he specified on his Twitter account.
José Cueto pronounces on the case. Photo: Twitter
Likewise, Héctor Valer, current congressman regrouped in the Democratic Peru bench, agreed in considering what was expressed by the international entity as a transgression of the decisions made by a sovereign country and its institutions.
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“The communication of the Inter-American Court is interference in the national criminal law. As a State, we are respectful of international law, but never of an attack on the Constitution”, he published on his personal Twitter account.
Héctor Valer is a current congressman regrouped in the caucus of Democratic Peru. Photo: Twitter
Fujimori’s pardon
On March 17, the Constitutional Court declared the appeal against the annulment of the pardon of former dictator Alberto Fujimori well founded. who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crimes of La Cantuta and Barrios Altos. This measure was granted by the exmandatario Peter Paul Kuczynski in December 2017, since he had negotiated this decision in order to win votes and avoid a possible vacancy by the Congress of that time. Said action was given with the casting vote of Augusto Ferrero after a tie of votes for and against the decision.
