The New Anti-Terrorism Legislation: Advances and Limits
In order to confront the subversive phenomenon, during the last two decades the Peruvian State has systematically resorted to enacting emergency criminal legislation openly at odds with national legal standards and with international norms for the protection of human rights. This has meant a traumatic alteration of the rule-of-law model that substantially affects the classification and punishment of crimes, the rules governing preliminary investigation and criminal proceedings, and the rules governing criminal enforcement.