Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) may be released next Thursday, after the resolution that restored his pardon continues the process in the Judiciary and the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE), one of his lawyers commented on Monday, Elio Riera, to a local newspaper.
“The Constitutional Court (TC) has to announce its ruling. Then the defense has to be notified so that the letters can be passed on to the Judiciary and the National Penitentiary Institute,” Riera explained to the newspaper La República.
The lawyer estimated that “in two or three days, perhaps on Thursday, Fujimori could be released,” who was serving a 25-year prison sentence for the massacre of 25 people at the hands of the undercover military group Colina and the kidnapping of a journalist and businessman in 1992.
Last Thursday, the TC approved a habeas corpus appeal that restores the humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori by former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2017 and, since then, the 83-year-old former president has been waiting to be released from prison. in the Barbadillo police prison.
His followers and sympathizers take turns holding vigil outside the prison waiting for Fujimori to leave with a probable course to a medical center, given his fragile state of health, according to his family.
Despite the rejection that this resolution has generated in various sectors, Fujimori’s lawyer justified the pardon because he is “an elderly person” and “with cancer problems”, although this diagnosis is no longer mentioned in the medical reports of the former president. but his heart and lung problems.
Riera also pointed out that “in the event that this sentence is analyzed by international bodies, such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH), the prosecutors must take sides with the ruling of the TC.”
The Inter-American Court has given the Peruvian State one week to inform it about the provisional measures it has taken after the ruling of the TC and asked it to “immediately inform the Constitutional Court” about those actions.
The human rights organizations in Peru went one day before the ruling of the TC before the Inter-American Court to request a provisional measure and, when the resolution was known, they presented another document requesting that it act immediately through the process of monitoring the sentence.
In turn, the government of President Pedro Castillo announced that it will resort to international justice organizations to try to reverse the decision of the TC.
The Vice Minister of Justice, Juan Carrasco, who also chairs the Commission of Presidential Graces, pointed out that “this will mean (going) to international channels, to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CourtIDH) and, through these means, reverse this failure”. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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