Is pronounced. The magistrate Eloy Espinosa-Saldana referred to the decision of constitutional Court (CT) of declare well-founded the appeal filed against the sentence that annulled the humanitarian pardon of convicted former president Alberto Fujimori.
“It has been a complicated case. We tied 3-3. When this happened, the decisive vote of Augusto Ferrero was given, which was in favor of the release of Alberto Fujimori. At this time, the president of the Court, with the secretary general, are drafting a statement regarding this situation, “he said in dialogue with TV Peru.
The magistrates who voted against habeas corpus to release Alberto Fujimori were: Marianella Ledesma, Manuel Miranda and the same Eloy Espinosa-Saldana. While those who voted in favor were: Ernest Blume, Jose Sardonand the president of the TC, Augusto Ferrero, who had the casting vote.
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Next, Espinosa-Saldaña mentioned that “there are still a series of procedures” that have to be carried out to pardon Alberto Fujimori. According to the lawyer, “sometimes the TC coordinated with the INPE, in others it has been the Court that referred this to the Supreme Court.”
“The presidency does not yet have the precision on that, but in some other way the corresponding officials will have to make the coordination to abide by the sentence that we do not share, but we have to respect it because that is the work in the Court,” he declared.
Likewise, he confirmed that this decision of the TC restores the pardon to Alberto Fujimori. This, thanks to the vote of its president, Augusto Ferrera, who finally “decided on the release of Alberto Fujimori.” “There are various procedures and it is up to the president of the court to see what procedure is going, that is up to Augusto Ferrero”, he added.
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On the other hand, when asked about the appeal of international law not to give a pardon to people convicted of crimes against humanity, Espinosa-Saldaña pointed out that the supervision made by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) must first be seen. .
“We have to wait for the Court to decide, what they take to the Court, how the Court takes this resolution (….) Judge Ledesma and I raised a previous question (to wait for the Inter-American Court’s resolution) but it was not approved. We did it with good intentions but it was not accepted, ”she limited.
