Weekly Report - 27 September 2012 (WR-12-38)

A triumph for human rights or a setback for Peru’s national sovereignty? Those were the two most polarised reactions to a resolution issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CorteIDH) this week ordering the annulment of a ruling by Peru’s penal chamber of the supreme court to reduce the length of the sentences for members of the Colina death squad who were involved in massacres in the 1990s during the authoritarian government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000).

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