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Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All students are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information and [...]

UN experts on Friday condemned the dismissal of Peruvian Judge Oswaldo Ordóñez Alcántara, formerly the president of the First Constitutional Chamber of Lima, from his post. The move was described as a reprisal for his defense of judicial independence and his public criticism of legislative reforms that could weaken the rule of law in the [...]

Peruvian presidential candidate Rafael Lopez Aliaga of the ultra-conservative Renovacion Popular party alleged fraud on Sunday regarding the country’s April 12 general elections and demanded the Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE) annul the results. This is despite presenting no evidence to support his claims and contradicting the findings of both domestic and international election observers. [...]

Peru’s National Office of Electoral Process (ONPE) extended presidential and congressional elections into a second day Monday after a private contractor failed to deliver ballots to dozens of polling stations across Lima, preventing more than 52,000 citizens from voting on time. The Jurado Nacional de Elecciones (JNE), Peru’s top electoral court, approved ONPE’s request for [...]

Mikaela is a law student at the Universidad de Lima, and a JURIST correspondent covering legal developments and social issues in Perú. Nowadays, Perú faces uneasy parallels to the internal instability seen in the 1980s. While the ideological conflict of the past has been replaced by the cold logic of organized crime, the social atmosphere [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s Faculty of Law dedicated to spreading legal information [...]

Amnesty International on Monday condemned the growing use of discriminatory legal frameworks by governments across the Americas to systematically target civil society organizations, a trend it described as regressive and alarming. In a new report, Amnesty noted that practices by governments in Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela imposed excessive restrictions on civil [...]

UN human rights experts on Wednesday expressed concern over the Peruvian Constitutional Court’s decision ordering the release of former military officer Daniel Urresti Elera, who was convicted of the 1988 murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos in the context of Peru’s internal war and crimes against humanity. The experts stated that applying domestic limitation periods to [...]

The Congress of Peru on Tuesday approved seven motions of censure against the President of Congress and Interim President of the Republic of Peru, José Jerí, over accusations of corruption. During a plenary session, 75 members of Congress voted in favor of removing José Jerí from office, with 24 opposing and three abstentions. The approved impeachment [...]

Two media outlets reported Monday on states’ abuses of Interpol red notices to target political dissidents and human rights defenders. Amnesty International urged Interpol to address this “grave institutional failure” and improve its transparency. Disclose, a French investigative media outlet, reported that Interpol has disclosed to the public less than 10 percent of the 86,000 [...]