Case of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta v. Peru

Abstract

On May 30, 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) ordered Peru to review the presidential pardon granted to former president and dictator Alberto Fujimori, who had been convicted and imprisoned for his role in serious human rights violations. The Peruvian Supreme Court obliged and, after examining the merits of the presidential pardon through a special procedure set up to assess the pardon's conformity with international human rights law, invalidated the pardon, effectively reinstating Fujimori's imprisonment for crimes against humanity.

El Proyecto De La Mano Dura: Experimento Neoliberal - Autoritario en Los Años 90 en Perú

“…La Consolidación del Autoritarismo durante el experimento neoliberal-autoritario en los años 90 en Perú se evidencia a través de una serie de estrategias dirigidas a contrarrestar la amenaza percibida de grupos subversivos (VELIT, 1999). la manipulación del sistema judicial, la censura a los medios de comunicación y la represión de la oposición política (CAMERON, 1998;CONTESSE, 2019;MAUCERI, 1995). De tal manera que en la instrumentalización de la justicia y la politización de las instituciones judiciales se erosionaron la imparcialidad y la integridad del sistema legal, socavando así los fundamentos de la democracia.…”

International courts and atrocities in the XXI century

“…Some scholars have critically referred to the IACtHR's approach to amnesties and pardons as being interventionist or exercising excessive control (see, e.g., Contesse, 2019), especially when amnesties are adopted by democratic regimes following referenda as happened in Gelman v. Uruguay (see, Gargarella, 2013;Gargarella, 2015). In this context, some scholarship has positively evaluated the more nuanced or calibrated approaches to amnesties and pardons adopted by the IACtHR in recent years (see, Contesse, 2019;Cornejo Chavez, Pérez-León-Acevedo, and Garcia-Godos, 2019, 348;Pérez-León-Acevedo, 2020, 685).…”

Revista completa N° 172

“…Cortes internacionales y atrocidades en el siglo XXI 113 Some scholars have critically referred to the IACtHR's approach to amnesties and pardons as being interventionist or exercising excessive control (see, e.g., Contesse, 2019), especially when amnesties are adopted by democratic regimes following referenda as happened in Gelman v. Uruguay (see, Gargarella, 2013;Gargarella, 2015). In this context, some scholarship has positively evaluated the more nuanced or calibrated approaches to amnesties and pardons adopted by the IACtHR in recent years (see, Contesse, 2019;Cornejo Chavez, Pérez-León-Acevedo, and Garcia-Godos, 2019, 348;Pérez-León-Acevedo, 2020, 685).…”