Carlos Rivera, the lawyer of former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), hopes that the former president will be released from prison this Wednesday, when the corresponding administrative procedures are completed and after this Tuesday the Constitutional Court ordered his immediate release.
“Understanding that the opening hours are until 4:00 p.m. local time, it is most likely that it will be tomorrow [Wednesday]. It is necessary to continue administrative procedures so that the release letter can be made viable,” said his defense. , Elio Riera, at the doors of the Barbadillo prison in Lima.
He indicated that he was going to go to the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru (INPE) to try to speed up the pending administrative procedures and that he hopes that this Wednesday at noon Fujimori can be released.
He explained that after speaking with the former president and informing him of what was dictated by the Constitutional Court, he has shown “calm, hope and gratitude to all the people who have worked for this just cause.”
“Today we have managed to achieve justice, previously limited in Ica, we have achieved it, we have achieved that based on the criteria of humanity and above all with greater preponderance of the mandates of the Constitutional Court, this sentence is made effective,” he indicated. .
He added that Fujimori is clinically stable and that his children have remained in this process in “constant concern and communion of efforts.”
He also stated that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDC) “cannot decide who it releases and who it does not” and that the message that must prevail is precisely the protection of human rights.
The Constitutional Court of Peru ordered the release of Fujimori on Tuesday, despite the fact that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the opposite last year.
“This Constitutional Court orders that the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and the director of the Barbadillo Prison (where he remains imprisoned), on the same day, order the immediate release of the favored person, Alberto Fujimori,” reads an order from the TC.
The resolution, which was signed by three of the current six members of the TC, with the casting vote of the president of the organization, Francisco Morales, declared “the appeal for reconsideration was founded in the end of the direct and immediate execution of the sentence of 12 last March, relapse in the present process”.
Last Friday, a court in the southern region of Ica declared inadmissible a first resolution of the Constitutional Court that restored Fujimori’s pardon and returned the case to the TC.
The president of the highest court, Francisco Morales, had stated that the authorities should “proceed to the immediate release” of Fujimori, contrary to two resolutions issued by the Inter-American Court.
