Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.

In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international ...

UN experts on Thursday warned that the Peruvian Congress' approval of a bill granting amnesty to persons who committed serious human rights violations during the internal armed conflict between 1980 ...

Peru's Congress has passed a law granting "humanitarian" amnesty to nearly 900 military and police officers convicted or ...

Bill 7549/2023-CR grants amnesty to members of the Armed Forces, the Peruvian National Police, Self-Defense Committees and State officials denounced or prosecuted for crimes committed between 1980 and ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) condemns the recent adoption of the Amnesty Law and urges the Peruvian State ...

Peru's Congress has passed a controversial amnesty law for military and civilians involved in human rights abuses during the ...

UN experts expressed alarm Thursday over a Peruvian law that would grant amnesty to military, police and state perpetrators of rights violations during a bloody campaign against leftist guerrillas ...

Congress is moving forward with an amnesty bill that would benefit persons responsible for serious human rights violations committed between 1980 and 2000. The proposal disregards binding rulings of ...

Joint Statement: International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International, Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL), Fundación para el Debido Proceso (DPLF), Incidencia ...

Peru's Congress has approved a law granting amnesty to military, police and other forces prosecuted for rights violations committed during the nation's bloody, decades-old campaign against leftist ...