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Fujimori sentenced for crimes against humanity
Former president Alberto Fujimori is sentenced (07-04-09)
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Special Terrorism Court convicts María Magdalena Monteza Benavides
On June 18, 1993, the Special Terrorism Chamber of the Superior Court of Lima sentenced María Magdalena Monteza Benavides to twenty years imprisonment for the crime of terrorist collaboration, based on the police investigation. On March 11, 1994, the Supreme Court of Justice modified the sentence and sentenced her to …
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Statement of the vicariates of Puno against the PCP-SL
The vicariates of Puno, Juliaca, Ayaviri and Sicuani issued a joint statement expressing their condemnation and rejection of the actions of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path (PCP-SL). The communiqué specifically criticized the coercion, authoritarianism and destruction that characterized the actions of the subversive group in the region. …
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Condemnation for attack on Acción Popular's premises
On November 26, 1986, the Superior Court of Lima sentenced Laura Eugenia Zambrano Padilla and María Concepción Urquizo Sánchez to 10 years in prison for the attack against the Acción Popular headquarters on July 11, 1983. They were ordered to pay fifty thousand Intis in favor of the Acción Popular …
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Conviction for the Socos massacre
The First Mixed Chamber of the Correctional Court of Ayacucho sentenced eleven members of the Civil Guard for the murder of 32 inhabitants of Socos. The sentences ranged from 10 to 25 years in prison. The police officers were found to have executed the peasants, tampered with evidence and persecuted …
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Former terrorist leader Martha Huatay left the Ancón II prison yesterday after serving a 25-year custodial sentence, drawing the attention of various media outlets and the concern of the entire …
On Monday, September 23, the Sala Penal Nacional convicted Army Brigadier General Carlos Alberto Paz Figueroa, former head of the military base at Lircay, and Lieutenant Colonel EP Yorvil Távara …
The Sala Penal Nacional has just issued an important ruling in the case of the enforced disappearance of Rubén Aparicio Villanueva Toro, a crime perpetrated on March 25, 1990 in …
Today marks 20 years since nine students and a professor from La Cantuta university were abducted and murdered by a military group, in one of the cases for which former …
April 6 is an interesting day on which to write a column, as it is preceded and followed by two dates representing opposing and mutually exclusive tendencies in Peruvian history: …
Former intelligence adviser Vladimiro Montesinos and former Army chief Nicolás Hermoza, the second and third in command, respectively, in the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000), were sentenced on …
Exactly 2 years ago, the Special Criminal Chamber, presided over by magistrate César San Martín Castro, issued a condemnatory sentence against former president Alberto Fujimori Fujimori for the commission of …
The 25-year sentence handed down to Alberto Fujimori is not only a masterpiece of law and logic, a mental construction of impeccable clarity and an irrefutable chain of facts, documents, …
The objection filed against the conviction of Sendero Luminoso leaders is rejected as unfounded. The objection filed against the conviction of Abimael Guzmán to life imprisonment for the commission of …
The Ministry of Justice reports that Army officer Collins Collantes Guerra and police officer Luis Juárez Aspiro have been sentenced to 14 and six years in prison, respectively, for crimes …
Abimael Guzmán Reynoso has been sentenced to spend the rest of his days in prison for aggravated terrorism and aggravated homicide, following a process that lasted a year and was …
Told this way, the story cannot help but inspire sympathy. The brilliant student from the exclusive Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), altruistic and committed, concerned about Latin America's dispossessed, was …