La Cantuta Case vs. Peru

The ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concludes that the Peruvian State violated the right to life, personal integrity, and personal liberty, to the detriment of Hugo Muñoz Sánchez, Dora Oyague Fierro, Marcelino Rosales Cárdenas, Bertila Lozano Torres, Luis Enrique Ortiz Perea, Armando Richard Amaro Cóndor, Robert Edgar Teodoro Espinoza, Heráclides Pablo Meza, Juan Gabriel Mariños Figueroa, and Felipe Flores Chipana. Furthermore, the State failed to fulfill its obligation to adopt provisions of domestic law in order to bring its domestic regulations into conformity with the provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights, during the period in which "amnesty laws" No. 26,479 of June 14, 1995 and No. 26,492 of June 28, 1995 were applied in the present case. Published on November 29, 2006.