Peru’s justice system has upheld the annulment of the criminal charges against former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) in the case of forced sterilizations, rejecting an appeal by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, local media reported on Saturday (10.08.2024).
The Fourth Transitory Liquidating National Superior Criminal Chamber confirmed in a resolution the decision to annul the “order to open the investigation” of the case, thus nullifying the progress made between 2021 and 2023. The Judiciary thus dismisses the appeal that the Public Prosecutor’s Office had filed against the first instance resolution, adopted in December 2023.
The court decision was issued on July 22, but was notified recently and confirmed that the case returns to the stage of filing a criminal complaint by the Prosecutor’s Office.
The accusations against Alberto Fujimori
During Fujimori’s second term in office, between 1995 and 2000, the Peruvian government implemented its National Program for Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health, which carried out sterilizations on more than 200,000 people, most of them Quechua speakers, from vulnerable and rural communities.
This case has been opened and archived several times in Peru since the events were reported and has included, in addition to Fujimori, among those responsible, the then Ministers of Health for having allegedly given instructions for the execution of this program, with incentives for the medical personnel who participated.
In early December 2023, the Constitutional and Social Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice rejected a request to expand the complaint for the case of forced sterilizations, declared the process that began in 2021 null and void, and returned it to the stage of October 2018. The prosecutor’s request included more information and more victims who suffered these interventions, so the rejection of this extension generated repudiation by social organizations.
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