The supranational attorney Carlos Reano affirmed that the Peruvian State will comply with the provisions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rightswhich ordered our country to refrain from executing the decision to release Alberto Fujimori, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the crimes of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta.
In this line, the supranational prosecutor Carlos Reano Balarezo He explained that the provision of the Inter-American Court has a binding charactertherefore, proceeded to notify – as confirmed to La República – the Ministry of Justice, the State Attorney General’s Officeto the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and to Constitutional Court (TC) so that the release of the exmandatario does not proceed.
Inter-American Court orders that Alberto Fujimori not be released
This Wednesday the 30th, through a letter addressed to the supranational specialized public prosecutorCarlos Reaño, the Inter-American Court indicated that said ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC) to release the sentenced former president should not be done “until the request for provisional measures is resolved in the coming days.”
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“The plenary session of the Inter-American Court decided today (Wednesday, March 30) to require the Peruvian State, in order to guarantee the right of access to justice for the victims of the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases, refrain from executing the decision of the Constitutional Court ordering the release of Alberto Fujimori Fujimori”, reads in the document issued by the international body.
This decision of the Inter-American Court was adopted after on March 17, the Constitutional Court (TC) declare habeas corpus founded requesting that the effects of the pardon granted in December 2017 by the former president be restored Peter Paul Kuczynski in favor of Alberto Fujimori. Decision that was approved with the votes of magistrates Augusto Ferrero, José Luis Sardón and Ernesto Blume.
