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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The draft law contravenes international norms and undermines the achievements of decades of struggle for justice. Just days before the opening of the General Assembly of the Organisation of American ...

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 ...

The Peruvian Congress on Wednesday approved an amnesty law for members of the Armed Forces, the National Police, and self-defense militias over the age of 80 who were prosecuted or convicted for ...