Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
The Supreme Court of Justice modified the sentence imposed on María Magdalena Monteza Benavides for the crime of terrorist collaboration. Originally, on June 18, 1993, the Special Terrorism Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima had sentenced her to twenty years imprisonment. The Supreme Court reduced the sentence to fifteen …
The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, made up of five justices, did not reach the four votes required by its Organic Law to resolve a jurisdictional dispute over the La Cantuta case. The vote was three to two in favor of the military jurisdiction. A second vote was then …
The Supreme Court of Justice issued its final judgment in the second instance of the Uchuraccay case, increasing to 15 years the prison sentence of defendants Dionisio Morales Pérez and Mariano Ccasani Gonzáles for the crime of simple homicide, confirming the rest of the sentence of the Special Court. The …
The Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Republic declared that all aspects of the conviction for the Socos massacre were not null and void. The Supreme Court confirmed the prison and disqualification sentences imposed on the eleven members of the Civil Guard responsible for the murder of …
The Supreme Court confirmed the sentences imposed on the seven members of the police prosecuted for the murder of Jesús Oropeza. This confirmation represented one of the few cases where members of law enforcement were effectively sanctioned for human rights violations during the internal armed conflict.
The Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Republic issued a decision ruling that the judicial investigation into the disappearance of Jaime Ayala Sulca should be heard by the ordinary courts, rejecting the request of the Military Justice to transfer the case to the military courts. This decision …
The Supreme Court dismissed a jurisdictional dispute raised by a police judge in the case of the murder of Jesús Oropeza. This decision allowed the case to continue to be heard by the common courts and not to be transferred to the military justice system, which was a common practice …
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