Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Impunity issues raised by Peruvian legislation

Attorney Carlos M. Rivera Paz has written this detailed criticism of changes in Peruvian military justice. From Servindi's introduction:

Since 2024, the Congress of the Republic has initiated a strategy for crimes committed by police or military personnel to be judged by the military-police jurisdiction to the detriment of the ordinary justice system.

The strategy is not new. It is the same one that Fujimorism implemented during the 1980s and 90s to grant impunity to the perpetrators of human rights crimes.

Today, at the behest of Fuerza Popular and Renovación Popular, Peru has entered a maelstrom of congressional regulations that reverse the progress in justice achieved in November 2004, established at that time by the Supreme Court of Justice.

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