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. As for the rules to be applied to new criminal proceedings, the first impression these provisions give us is that, despite the Constitutional Tribunal's efforts to address the objections to the anti-terrorism decree laws, the Executive's measure does not go beyond the characteristic framework of emergency legislation.