Madrid. The Fourth Transitory Liquidating Superior Criminal Chamber of the National Superior Court of Peru annulled the complaint filed against former President Alberto Fujimori for the case of forced sterilizations during his term.
The court has ruled that the complaint against Fujimori and his health ministers cannot be processed under the rules of the 1940 Code of Criminal Procedure and has thus given preference to the New Code of Criminal Procedure of 2004, which means that the case will be restarted, according to the Peruvian newspaper ‘La República’.
The judicial investigation carried out between 2021 and 2023 is thus lost and now the Prosecutor’s Office must reconsider the case, formalize the preparatory investigation, present it to a court under the new Code and carry out the necessary procedures to gather elements for a possible accusation against Fujimori and his former health ministers Alejandro Aguinaga, Marino Costa and Eduardo Yong for alleged indirect authorship of the crime of serious injuries followed by death in a context of serious human rights violations.
The Study for the Defense of Women’s Rights (Demus) responded in a statement in which it stressed that the case has not been archived nor has Fujimori been excluded.
Some 350,000 women and 25,000 men from the interior of the country, the vast majority indigenous, were subjected against their will to the surgical contraception procedure promoted by the government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).
Fujimori, 86, has been free since December 7, 2023, on a pardon granted on humanitarian grounds despite objections from the Inter-American courts. He had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres.
On July 14, he was appointed presidential candidate by the political party Fuerza Popular, founded by his daughter, Keiko, for the 2026 presidential elections.
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– 2024-08-21 03:25:57
