Foreign Minister César Landa assured that Peru will not abide by the ruling of the Constitutional Court (TC) in favor of the humanitarian pardon of Alberto Fujimorithus complying with the decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IA Court) that ordered to refrain from releasing the former president.
“By resolution of the Inter-American Court, Peru must refrain from implementing the ruling of the Constitutional Court of March 17, 2022, which ordered to ‘restore’ the effects of the pardon of December 24, 2017 granted to Alberto Fujimori, since he did not comply with what was ordered. by the Inter-American Court”he noted via Twitter.
Moments before, the international court had published the resolution that ordered Peru not to comply with the release of former president Alberto Fujimori, since the Constitutional Court’s ruling had not met the standards that had been required in May 2018.
“Specifically, (the TC did not comply with) the conditions determined in the Resolution of supervision of compliance with sentences of May 30, 2018″assessed Foreign Minister César Landa.
The Inter-American Court had held a virtual public hearing on April 1, where it heard from the families of the victims of the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases, as well as from the Peruvian State and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
After this, and after a week, they published their decision ordering that Peru not abide by the ruling of the Constitutional Court to restore Alberto Fujimori’s humanitarian pardon.
“The State of Peru must refrain from implementing the ruling issued by the Constitutional Court of Peru on March 17, 2022, which restores the effects of the pardon ‘for humanitarian reasons’ granted to Alberto Fujimori Fujimori on December 24, 2017, due to that it did not comply with the conditions determined in the ruling on monitoring compliance with judgments of May 30, 2018″, the Inter-American Court ruled.
