Peruvian Precedent: The Fujimori Conviction and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
NACLA Report on the Americas › Vol. 43 Nbr. 2, March 2010
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Fujimori is only the most famous of Peru's convicted human rights abusers. Since 2001, when an Inter-American Court of Human Rights decision nullified the country's 1995 amnesty law, opening up the possibility for criminal trials in human rights cases, there have been almost a dozen successful convictions, including eight with firm sentences and dozens of other cases in trial. [...] there now exists a series of state institutions dedicated primarily to investigating and prosecuting such cases.
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Peruvian Precedent: The Fujimori Conviction and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
IN JANUARY, PERU'S FORMER PRESIDENT ALBERTO Fujimori lost an appeal against his conviction for human rights crimes. The Peruvian Supreme Court found him guilty in April 2009 of creating and operating a secret death squad that kidnapped and murdered several Peruvians during the country's internal armed conflict.
"Fujimori is a fully convicted criminal, and this was his final appeal," said Ronald Gamarra, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs, at a press conference the day the Supreme Court announced its decision. The ratification of the guilty verdict and the former president's 25-year prison sentence was "categorical and definitive," Gamarra said, and...See the full content of this document
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