Last week, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) sent a letter to the Ministry of Justice (Minjus) to request for Ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s pardon process file.
The request takes place because on February 2, the IACHR will hold a hearing about the cases La Cantuta and Barrios Altos, related to allegedly human rights violations by Fujimori.
Alberto Fujimori was serving a 25-year sentence for violation of human rights and last Christmas Eve, current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski granted him a pardon less than halfway through his sentence.
Lawyer Gloria Cano, Executive Director of the Pro Human Rights Association (Aprodeh) and Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), told La República that if the Peruvian state doesn’t hand over the files “it will be harmful for the Government and it will be evidence that the pardon has some secrecy involved”, she says.
According to La República, the files regarding Fujimori’s pardon have been requested unsuccessfully by many national institutes, such as the Ombudsman Office (Defensoría del Pueblo), the National Coordination of Human Rights (Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos or CNDDHH), as well as the Congresswomen Marisa Glave and Indira Huilca.
The request includes the record prepared by the Penitentiary Medical Board on December 19, 2017, and the complete file on which the pardon is based that helped as a support to grant it.
“There is an expressed will by the Ministry of Justice, Enrique Mendoza Ramírez, to deny to deliver this information, which is key”, says the Executive Secretary of the CNDDHH, Jorge Bracamonte Allain. “This means that there is a frank rebelliousness in making clear how the pardon process has been on the part of the Ministry of Justice”, he adds.
Last Sunday Fujimori was hospitalized after being examined by a cardiologist for heart issues. It’s the second time this month he visits the hospital for this condition, and for high blood pressure and arrhythmia.
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