Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

Peru's Congress has passed a law granting "humanitarian" amnesty to nearly 900 military and police officers convicted or ...

In addition to establishing impunity for police and military killers, the law sets the stage for a rupture with international ...

Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.

UN experts expressed alarm Thursday over a Peruvian law that would grant amnesty to military, police and state perpetrators of rights violations during a bloody campaign against leftist guerrillas ...

GENEVA - UN experts* today expressed alarm at the approval by Peru's Congress of a bill granting amnesty to perpetrators of gross human rights ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) condemns the recent adoption of the Amnesty Law and urges the Peruvian State ...

Many of the victims come from indigenous and peasant communities, whose voices have historically been ignored," said Marina Navarro, executive director of Amnesty International in Peru.

Peru's Congress has passed a controversial amnesty law for military and civilians involved in human rights abuses during the ...

Peru's Congress has approved a law granting amnesty to military, police and other forces prosecuted for rights violations committed during the nation's bloody, decades-old campaign against leftist ...

Joint Statement: International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International, Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL), Fundación para el Debido Proceso (DPLF), Incidencia ...

SANTIAGO - Peru's president, Dina Boluarte, could be criminally responsible and topped the chain of command that led to dozens of deaths during protests at the beginning of her presidency, Amnesty ...