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Presentation of alleged subversive Herminio Zea Fernández at DINCOTE headquarters
Presentation of the alleged subversive Herminio Zea Fernández at the offices of the Dirección Nacional Contra el Terrorismo (DINCOTE) in Lima on May 24, 1994. In 1993, following the self-coup of April 1992 that dissolved the Congress of the Republic and allowed Executive branch intervention in the Judiciary, President Alberto Fujimori enacted a set of Legislative Decrees that substantially modified anti-terrorism legislation. The new legislation included life imprisonment as a penalty for terrorism offenses, a special procedure using faceless judges to try alleged subversives, and the so-called "law of repentance." Military tribunals were also authorized to judge members of subversive organizations accused of the crime of treason.