Antauro Humala Tasso he obtained his freedom upon serving his sentence with redemption of sentence for study and work, INPE reported in a statement.
Humala was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the death of four police officers when in 2005 he led the act known as Andahuaylazo. The crimes for which he was confined are simple homicide, kidnapping, aggravated damage, theft or snatching of a weapon. To date he has served 17 years, 7 months and 14 days.
When requesting your freedom by redemption of punishment accessed the benefit that computes seven days of work or education for one day of freedom.
According to the resolution issued by the Penitentiary Technical Council of the Ancón II prison, Humala has studied and worked during his stay of 3,667 days, which has allowed him to reduce his sentence by 1 year and 7 months. The statement also indicates that Humala Tasso requested this benefit three times but that it was not granted for not meeting the corresponding deadline.
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As soon as the news of the release spread, Justice Minister Félix Chero spoke out. In statements to RPP, he said that Antauro Humala has served 17 years and 7 months of the imposed penalty and that adding the computation for study and work corresponds to his freedom. “It is a technical procedural issue and there is no discussion about that,” Chero noted.
He added that it is a technical-administrative benefit granted by the INPE and that he trusted the professionalism of the officials.
“What INPE has done is publish an official statement because compliance with protocols for his freedom still has to be fulfilled. That is to say, strictly speaking, Mr. Humala Tasso is not at liberty. It has been announced that his prison benefit of redemption of the sentence for work and education has been declared favorable in compliance with internal protocols that are in process, “he said.
Regarding the impediment to access prison benefits for those who, like Antauro Humala, have committed kidnapping, the Minister of Justice said that those who committed aggravated kidnapping do not have access and that the ethnocacerist was convicted of simple kidnapping.
Humala’s lawyer, Carmen Huidobro, also spoke. She mentioned that the request for freedom with redemption of penalty that they presented a month ago.
He considered that the authorities have acted with legal neatness and that in this case there was no intention of the government to favor the freedom of his client. He denied that Antauro Humala or she had asked for a pardon.
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plans. Carmen Huidobro said that when he leaves prison, Humala plans to publish his book and continue with the newspapers that he directed from prison.
Position. For Congressman Carlos Anderson, this release is a sign of the contempt that the life of the police generates for the government.
