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NGO denounces Boluarte’s anti-rights policy in Peru

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July 14 |

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published the report “Peru: advance of authoritarianism and regression of rights”, in which it denounced the conservative and anti-rights political project of Dina Boluarte’s government, which has led to the serious crisis that the Latin American country is currently going through.

In this document, FIDH criticized the “repressive brutality” during the social protests against the current administration that “left sixty-seven people dead”.

It also indicated that some of the murders could be categorized as extrajudicial executions as they were caused by weapons belonging to the armed forces, and whose pattern of injury involved shots above the torso”.

On the other hand, he pointed out the role of the Attorney General’s Office which, since the repression crisis, rather than investigating the deaths and possible cases of extrajudicial executions and serious human rights violations and those responsible, “has turned to the persecution and channeling of the citizens who protest, particularly the leaders of the organizations involved”.

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It also assured that this organism is politically biased, since, for example, it dedicated itself “to putting together a file of constitutional accusation against then President Castillo, leaving aside other cases with more seniority”.

FIDH affirmed that “there is an evident process of capture of democratic institutions in Peru by an authoritarian, ultraconservative and anti-rights Congress, now allied with the Boluarte government” and assures that “the current political crisis in Peru obeys a conservative and authoritarian political and ideological project”.

“The dominant tendency of these powers to revert the conquests of diverse rights has encouraged and will encourage to maintain and increase the rejection of both institutions. And it is very likely that the interventionist attempt in the other powers of the State and the increasing economic crisis will influence the development of citizen mobilizations and increase the destabilization of the country. The ‘Third Seizure of Lima’ planned for the next few days is an example of this”, highlighted the document.

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