Peru’s Constitutional Court ordered the release of the former president on Tuesday Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), although the The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDC Court) ruled the opposite last year.

“This Constitutional Court orders that the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and the director of the Barbadillo prison (where he is imprisoned) on the same day immediate freedom of the beneficiary, Alberto Fujimori” reads a TC order.

The Court opposes the judgment of the Inter-American Court and states “In view of the lack of jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to directly order non-execution of a judicial decision in the context of the supervision of punishment, this court ordered the execution of its judgment dated 17 March 2022, pronounced in the present case, deviating from what was stated in the resolution of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” the TC said.

Fujimori, who is in poor health, complies a 25-year prison sentence for the massacres in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta.

Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reports that Fujimori has other cases for which he has yet to face justice, including the Pativilca case, which concerns the murder of six people by the Colina paramilitary group; Another case is that of forced sterilizations, which according to Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the detainee and former presidential candidate, “was a family planning scheme.”

During Alberto Fujimori’s government, the National Program for Reproductive Health and Family Planning was implemented (1996-2000), with the aim of using surgical interventions as a method of contraception. However, according to the Public Prosecution Service, more than a thousand women were forced to undergo this procedure without their consent or knowledge of the consequences. (JO)