Overview
- Urresti’s immediate release follows a 2023 murder conviction for the killing of journalist Hugo Bustíos that was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2024.
- The tribunal’s majority cited prescription and the non‑retroactivity of international standards such as the Rome Statute, while dissenter Manuel Monteagudo argued crimes against humanity are not time‑barred.
- The Bustíos family and the Instituto de Defensa Legal will file a constitutional complaint against the tribunal’s magistrates, alleging they overreached and fostered impunity.
- IDL will also ask the National Criminal Court to apply control de convencionalidad so judges can set aside the tribunal’s ruling for conflicting with Peru’s human‑rights treaty obligations.
- The family is preparing an appeal to the Inter‑American human‑rights system, and the National Journalists Association condemned the decision as negationist as Peru reels from multiple unsolved journalist killings in 2025; a regional legal analysis further argues the tribunal ignored a 1993–2002 suspension of prescription that would push expiry to 2031.