Crysol wrote to the new president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Dr. John Pérez, wishing him success in his administration.
At the same time, the association of former political prisoners of Uruguay requested that the recommendations made by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the judgment of the case “Maidanik et al. vs. Uruguay”, of last November 15, be included among the priorities to resolve. of 2021.
The case refers to the forced disappearance of Luis Eduardo González González and Oscar Tassino Asteazu, as well as the extrajudicial executions of Diana Maidanik, Laura Raggio Odizzio and Silvia Reyes (case known as The April Girls) within the framework of the civic dictatorship – military in Uruguay, during which period serious human rights violations were committed by state agents.
In this sense, it refers to the fact that the State “violated the rights to legal personality, to life, to personal integrity, and to personal liberty. Likewise, it is argued that the application of the Law of Expiration of the Punitive Claim of the State constituted an obstacle for the investigation of the facts at different times, given that it had the apparent effect of procuring impunity, thus violating judicial guarantees and protection. judicial.
Right to justice
Crysol states in its letter to the president of the Court of Justice that once the civic-military dictatorship was defeated, upon returning to democracy, during the first government of Dr. Julio María Sanguinetti, the Uruguayan Parliament, through Law 15,737, ratified the accession to the Inter-American Charter of Human Rights and accepted the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
“The investigation, clarification and punishment of serious human rights violations, crimes against humanity in accordance with the international commitments ratified by Uruguay, is the exclusive power of the Judiciary,” remarks Crysol.
The organization also states that “the right to justice is a right of all victims and a social need to affirm democracy, the rule of law and generate the conditions that prevent the repetition of such tragic events.”
