The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Félix Chero, reported that the Presidential Grace Commission is analyzing whether or not to grant a prison benefit requested by the ethnocacerist leader Antauro Humala.
In statements to TV Peru, he said that the benefit requested by the brother of former president Ollanta Humala is that of “commutation of sentence.”
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“That [el pedido de Antauro] is in the process of evaluation, we know that he has requested a prison benefit, I think commutation of sentence, I am requesting the report and the commission is analyzing the relevance of that request”, he stated.
In 2009, Antauro Humala was sentenced to 25 years in prison for homicide, kidnapping and rebellion. In 2011, his sentence was reduced to 19 years, following a review of the case by the Supreme Court.
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The Government today published six supreme resolutions that grant the presidential grace of commutation of sentence and common pardon to 20 people deprived of their liberty.
Of the group of 20 people deprived of their liberty who receive the benefit, 16 are men and four women, who serve their sentences in the women’s prisons of Chorrillos, Jauja, Ancón II, Lurigancho, Huacho, Chiclayo, Chincha, Huancayo and Trujillo for men. .
Likewise, 13 cases correspond to commutation of the sentence and seven to common pardon, which meet the assumptions and conditions established by Supreme Decree No. 004-2020-JUS: mothers with children in prison and over 60 years of age, and internal and internal with custodial sentences not exceeding four years.