Presentation of alleged Shining Path members at DINCOTE headquarters

Presentation of alleged members of Sendero Luminoso at the headquarters of the Dirección Nacional Contra el Terrorismo (DINCOTE) in 1994. In 1993, following the self-coup of April 1992 that dissolved the Congress of the Republic and allowed Executive intervention in the Judiciary, President Alberto Fujimori enacted a series of legislative decrees that substantially modified anti-terrorism legislation. These modifications had initially been proposed in 1991 but were rejected at that time by the Congress of the Republic. The new anti-terrorism legislation was ratified by the new Congreso Constituyente Democrático (CCD), elected in late 1992, whose members were mostly supporters of the Fujimori government. The changes introduced in the legislation included life imprisonment as a penalty for terrorism offenses, a special procedure of faceless judges to try alleged subversives, and the so-called "repentance law." Military tribunals were also authorized to try members of subversive organizations accused of the crime of treason.