Overview
- The Supreme Court’s Plenary Chamber issued a formal statement on January 31 rejecting attempts to influence, censor, or condition judicial decisions.
- The statement, posted on the judiciary’s official social media, says interference or disciplinary threats over rulings would damage the justice system and harm citizens, especially the most vulnerable.
- Congress President Fernando Rospigliosi had criticized judges who declined to apply a congressional law that could enable prescription for pre‑2002 crimes against humanity in the Cayara case, posting that such judges should be “swept out.”
- Rospigliosi also filed a complaint with the National Board of Justice against Judge Rocío del Pilar Ramírez after she ruled certain provisions of the APCI law regulating NGOs inapplicable in a case involving the Legal Defense Institute.
- Reports note the questioned judicial decisions were grounded in constitutional and international standards, and the court’s statement marks a formal defense of independence as political tensions continue.