Overview
- Jhon Alarcón, Christian Acosta and Elvis Salcedo received one-year suspended prison terms and a one-year ban from public office for abuse of authority.
- The court ordered 44,000 soles in civil reparations to victims Vladimir and Augusto Valencia and brothers Adrián and Augusto Gutiérrez.
- Prosecutors established that four citizens were arbitrarily detained on February 16, 2021, kept overnight without registration and subjected to physical harm.
- The case was brought by the Fiscalía de la Nación’s specialized human-rights and anti-terrorism subsystem, with prosecutor Rubén Anicama Medina presenting the evidence.
- Authorities and media link the verdict to wider concerns about police conduct in Peru, prompting renewed calls for stronger oversight and human-rights training within the PNP.