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dc.contributor.authorCORNEJO CHAVEZ, Leiry
dc.contributor.authorPEREZ-LEON-ACEVEDO, Juan-Pablo
dc.contributor.authorGARCIA-GODOS, Jemima
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-10T16:07:45Z
dc.date.available2020-02-10T16:07:45Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationInternational journal of transitional justice, 2019, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 328-348en
dc.identifier.issn1752-7716
dc.identifier.issn1752-7724
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/66022
dc.descriptionPublished: 21 April 2019en
dc.description.abstractIn 2017, former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned after serving less than half of a 25-year sentence for human rights violations. The measure was taken amidst political turmoil and an impeachment process led by the Fujimorista party against former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Fujimori's victims in the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases requested the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) to annul the pardon due to its incompatibility with Peru's human rights obligations. The IACtHR decided that it was for the Peruvian courts to exercise jurisdictional control over the pardon, thus affirming its subsidiary role. Through an examination of the political situation, the underlying principles of the IACtHR's jurisprudence on amnesties, and rule of law and international standards, this article argues that the IACtHR had sufficient grounds to overturn the pardon. The court's resolution to refer the matter to the Peruvian jurisdiction may be explained by an increasing awareness of its subsidiary role, particularly regarding sensitive political issues.en
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch Council of Norway [223274-PluriCourts]en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofInternational journal of transitional justiceen
dc.subjectPresidential pardonen
dc.subjectInter-American Court of Human Rightsen
dc.subjectSubsidiarityen
dc.subjectImpunityen
dc.subjectRule of lawen
dc.subjectPeruen
dc.titleThe presidential pardon of Fujimori : political struggles in Peru and the subsidiary role of the Inter-American court of human rightsen
dc.typeArticle
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/ijtj/ijz010
dc.identifier.volume13
dc.identifier.startpage328
dc.identifier.endpage348
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