Overview

• The law extinguishes criminal responsibility for military, police and self-defense members accused or convicted of extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture and sexual violence during Peru’s 1980–2000 internal conflict.
• It grants amnesty to any sentenced individuals older than 70, effectively closing dozens of established convictions.
• The Inter-American Court of Human Rights requested in July that Peru suspend the bill and urged judges not to apply it but President Boluarte issued the law anyway.
• Human-rights organizations warn that 156 cases with final sentences and more than 600 ongoing prosecutions will be rendered void under the new measure.
• Legal experts predict immediate challenges in domestic courts as well as appeals to international bodies over Peru’s obligations under the American Convention on Human Rights.