The former president of Peru Ollanta Humala Tasso He claimed to be kidnapped by the Peruvian State and questioned the legality of its detention, despite having been sentenced to 15 years in prison for money laundering.
The ex -president wrote an article in the newspaper La República, entitled ‘The death of the rule of law and democracy’, where he indicates that he was deprived of his freedom on April 15 without a statement written and notified.
In addition, he questioned the judges who issued their conviction, Nayko Coronado, Juana Caballero and Max I come: “My illegal imprisonment constitutes a flagrant violation of due process and configures a kidnapping by the State.”
Ollanta Humala He indicated that on May 2, his sentence was just formalized, which he considers as a “violation of fundamental rights”, criticizing the impartiality of the justice system and denouncing persecution.
However, it is worth remembering that – for example – his wife, Nadine Heredia, also sentenced, wasted at the Brazilian embassy in Lima and, subsequently, was allowed to leave the country towards the South American giant, where he lives today.
It should be noted that the Second Constitutional Chamber recognized that the arrest was initially unconstitutional, having been carried out without a drafted sentence; However, the court declared that this irregularity was corrected when the complete ruling was incorporated, without automatically implying the release of the processing.
Humala concludes his column indicating that, with his imprisonment, “the rule of law and democracy have died in Peru.”
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