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.
Decree Law No. 25916, enacted on December 2, 1992, maintained the prohibition of penitentiary and procedural benefits for persons convicted of terrorism. This norm was part of the anti-terrorist legislation enacted after the coup d'état of April 1992. The decree eliminated rights such as parole, semi-liberty, probation, redemption of sentences …
Beginning in 1992, the policy of 'restitution of authority' was implemented in Peru's maximum security prisons. If in the 1980s prison authority represented extreme weakness and impotence that allowed the PCP-SL to organize itself politically and ideologically in the prisons, this new policy radically transformed prison conditions. The maximum security …
On July 9, 1990, 49 MRTA inmates managed to escape from a prison, reflecting the serious insecurity of the Peruvian prison system and the mismanagement of prisons during that period.
On July 9, 1990, 47 prisoners of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) escaped from the Castro Castro prison through a tunnel. Among the escapees were Víctor Polay Campos and Alberto Gálvez Olaechea, two of the main leaders of the MRTA. This massive escape represented a significant blow to the …
Carlos Langberg, who had been sentenced to 14 years in prison for illicit drug trafficking, was granted parole on October 2, 1986. This benefit was granted when he had served one third of his sentence. Langberg's case was mentioned in the context of the political and judicial events of October …
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