'The international justice bodies to which Peru is attached must safeguard the effective exercise of justice for the people,' said leftist President Pedro Castillo.
the massacre of farmers by a military death squad during his administration and the forced sterilization of Indigenous women. The former autocrat, who ordered the military to dissolve Congress and rewrote the Constitution, was also charged with corruption.on Friday that"the organizations that represent the victims in Peru have already called upon the [Inter-American] Court to have a meeting and to review this decision... they actually filed the request yesterday.
Videos later showed that representatives for Kuczynski had lobbied part of the Fujimorista Popular Force bloc in Congress in an apparent attempt to swap votes for Fujimori's pardon, fueling the uproar over the decision to free him. Human rights groups took their challenge to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which ordered a local court to revise the decision.
The local court decided the pardon was null and Fujimori returned to prison after being free for about nine months.Earlier this week, Peruvian lawmakers passed a motion to"Peru is going through an institutional crisis without precedent," Castillo said in a lengthy speech given in response."We will send to the Congress of the republic a set of reforms that will allow us to overcome this structural crisis.
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