Overview

• President Dina Boluarte signed the law on August 13, granting blanket amnesty to military, police and self-defense committee members for alleged abuses during Peru’s 1980–2000 internal conflict.
• The legislation could halt or overturn more than 600 pending trials and 156 convictions, according to the National Human Rights Coordinator.
• Congress approved the amnesty on July 9, and on July 24 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered Peru to suspend or refrain from applying the measure.
• United Nations human rights experts and organizations such as Human Rights Watch condemned the law as a violation of Peru’s obligations under the American Convention on Human Rights.
• Critics say the law follows earlier moves—including a 2024 statute of limitations on war crimes and the pardoning of former president Alberto Fujimori—and deepens a pattern of defiance against regional human rights rulings.