Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) may be released next Monday or Tuesday, when the judicial and legal procedures are completed to comply with a resolution to that effect issued this Thursday by the Constitutional Court (TC), reported his defense attorney, Cesar Nakazaki.
“I calculate that, between Monday or Tuesday, the criminal execution judge would already be ordering the INPE (National Penitentiary Institute) to release him,” Nakazaki told reporters on Thursday.
The lawyer explained that the TC has to officiate its resolution to the supreme criminal execution judge, who must abide by the decision of the country’s highest constitutional body and “give the release order.”
Peru’s highest court ratifies pardon to imprisoned former president Alberto Fujimori
“The Constitutional Court, surely, between tomorrow and Monday must send the official letter, because it is a freedom official. It must be fulfilled immediately, ”he remarked.
The lawyer also said that it will be Fujimori’s family, with his daughter Keiko at the helm, who will coordinate and decide where the former president will live, as well as care for the health problems he has suffered for several years.
“He had a pneumology care scheduled tomorrow, because the reason for the humanitarian pardon was due to cardiological problems, but today they have been aggravated by pulmonary problems, he suffers from pulmonary fibrosis, he spends almost the whole day with oxygen,” he explained.
casting vote
The TC confirmed this Thursday that the casting vote of its president, Augusto Ferrero, decided the annulment of the judicial resolution that suspended the pardon granted in 2017 to Fujimori, after the vote on the “habeas corpus” appeal requested by that measure was tied with three votes in favor and three against.
Ferrero used his decision-making vote, known in legal circles as “quality vote” or “double vote”, and also had the favorable votes of José Luis Sardón and Ernesto Blume, who was the speaker who raised the acceptance of the appeal, while Marianella Ledesma, Eloy Espinosa-Saldaña and Manuel Miranda opposed.
The TC remarked that the sentence that declares the lawsuit founded “restore the effects of the supreme resolution 281-2017-JUS, of December 24, 2017, which granted the humanitarian pardon to the plaintiff, and orders his freedom” and that the votes of the magistrates “will be published on the institutional web portal and will be notified in due course.”
In this way, the high court declared founded an appeal filed by the lawyer Gregorio Parco Alarcón against the resolution of the Supreme Court that in 2018 annulled the pardon granted to Fujimori on December 24, 2017 by the then president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (2016-2018).
The Judiciary took this measure after considering that the pardon did not meet the legal requirements and lacked legal effects, so Fujimori had to return to the prison of the police station in eastern Lima where he is serving his sentence.
The pardon is being investigated by the courts, since the Prosecutor’s Office considers that it was the product of a negotiation between Kuczynski and Fujimori’s youngest son, Kenji, who was a congressman at the time, so that Fujimorist legislators would vote against a request for the dismissal of Fujimori. then president.
Supporters of the former president began to arrive at the prison in the Ate district, in eastern Lima, where Fujimori is being held, while social and civil groups that reject his release called for a mobilization through the historic center of Lima under the slogan “Pardon is insult.” (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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