Sigrid Bazán criticizes the TC for the possible release of Alberto Fujimori: “He never asked for forgiveness or regretted it”

Sigrid Bazán, legislator of the political party Juntos for Peru, raised her voice in protest at the possible decision of the Constitutional Court to release the former President Alberto Fujimori, who was sentenced for 25 years for the crimes of La Cantuta and Barrios Altos.

Through her Twitter account, the parliamentarian disagreed with this possibility that she would leave the former president without prison sentence.

“Alberto Fujimori never asked for forgiveness or repented and so far he has not paid a single amount of his civil reparation; however, tomorrow the TC could overturn the Judiciary's ruling that annulled the illegal and negotiated pardon, granted to him for political and non-humanitarian reasons,” the parliamentarian wrote on her Twitter account.

Congresswoman Bazán made this reference, since this Thursday, March 17, the Constitutional Court will see one of the three cases in which the sentenced Alberto Fujimori is being released.

For his part, the rapporteur, Ernesto Blume, has proposed that the appeal be declared well founded, thereby rescinding the judgment of the judiciary that annulled the humanitarian pardon of the former president who is serving 25 years in prison for the crimes of La Cantuta and Barrios Altos.

This habeas corpus filed by lawyer Gregorio Parco Alarcón against the Supreme Court's decision to revoke the benefit that, at Christmas 2017, was granted by then-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to avoid being vacated from office.

MORE ABOUT ALBERTO FUJIMORI

Let us remember that a few days ago, Alberto Fujimori, was rushed to the hospital in Ate due to a complication in his health. Alejandro Aguinaga, general practitioner of the former head of state, said that his saturation was dropping and that this was seriously affecting his lungs and heart.

“He decompensated at seven in the morning and began to do atrial fibrillation with a tremendous arrhythmia, and forced him to take him to the nearest health center,” his family doctor told the AFP agency at that time.

It is worth mentioning that the former president is serving a 25-year prison sentence for the massacres of Barrios Altos (1991) and La Cantuta (1992), where an army death squad murdered 25 people - one child, among them - in an alleged anti-terrorist operation when he was president.

Since 2007, when he arrived in Peru extradited from Chile, he has repeatedly suffered from respiratory and neurological problems (facial paralysis) and hypertension. In October 2021, he was hospitalized for heart problems and had a catheterization to place a stent, a mesh to open clogged veins and arteries. At that time he was hospitalized for two months.

Keiko Fujimori, denounced in October 2021 that Pedro Castillo's leftist government plans to transfer his father from prison, as part of a policy to end the so-called “golden prisons” influenced the deterioration of his father's health.

On the other hand, the government announced in February 2022 that it was continuing its plan to change Fujimori to a common prison when his state of health permits. A Peruvian court had declared unfounded in May 2020 a family appeal calling for Fujimori's release from prison due to the risk of contracting COVID-19. (With additional information from AFP).

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