November 2020 March: The Transparency Court ordered the police to provide information reports.

More than a year after the protests held in November 2020, I oppose the president.Transparency Court of the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights Department ( Minjus, Manuel Merino, responded to a request for information from journalist Ernesto. Cabral and the Ministry of Internal Affairs ( Mininter) to provide an information report from the police. The deadline is March 17 today.

The reporter explained through a Twitter thread that he requested information from Mininter, who has the Peruvian Police (PNP). ) is included to provide knowledge of the report referred to by the Prosecutor's Office in the constitutional complaint against Merino. In this case, they refused it.

“In accordance with the Transparency Act, during the November 2020 march, we asked (Ministry of Internal Affairs) for information reports from DIGIMIN and DIRIN of the police. Businesses denied the information because it was 'secret'. ” Cabral said in a tweet.

I recall that the prosecutor's complaint is a key point for Merino's failure” as stated in the notification of support of the case, taking the dominant position over the public police control forces. It caused the death and injury of the citizens who participated in the mobilization.”

According to an excerpt from this document shared by Cabral, the prosecutor's office stated that Manuel was related to Merino and other people I knew about the “escalation risk” of violence. This is because he would have received some information reports from law enforcement agencies, such as the PNP. For this reason, he asked for information so that citizens could request information from public authorities under the Transparency Act.

Then Cabral noted that if he received a negative response from the PNP, he appealed to the transparency court belonging to Minjus. “My main argument is that the law states that 'information related to human rights violations is not considered confidential information'. The prosecutor's office investigates repression as a violation of human rights,” he said.

A few days later, the court ruled in favor of them and ordered the prosecutor's office to deliver the information report within 7 business days. Otherwise, you will receive a complaint from the Prosecutor's Office. The deadline for submitting this document is March 17.

However, on March 16, the General Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Education informed Cabral that he would have to wait for the opinion of the State Intelligence Service, noting that his request “could set a precedent that would threaten the nature of information activities” and ordered the court”.

Constitutional complaints against Manuel Merino, Antero Flores Araoz and Gaston Rodriguez

On October 4, Zoraida Ávalos, a national lawyer for Zoraida Ávalos, filed a five-day constitutional complaint against President Manuel Merino. The death of Antero Flores Ara Oz, former Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, former Interior Minister Gaston Rodriguez, Inti Sotello, and Brian Pintado and 78 people were injured in mobilization in November 2020.

The tax office charged Merino and his former ministers with final intent on charges of murder crimes, serious and minor injuries in the form of inappropriate omissions.

The complaint was filed in the Congress of the Republic, where the Attorney General's Office fulfills its constitutional obligations to protect the life and physical integrity of the participants in the mobilization mentioned above by Merino, Flores Araoz and Rodriguez.

It was also considered that they did not take measures to control the use of the police, which ended up being disproportionate. According to the Prosecutor's Office, this omission occurred despite official information regarding the intensification of these measures.

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