"Peru's Constitutional Court on Friday [Feb. 20] ordered the release of a former minister after overturning his 12-year prison sentence for being a direct co-author of the murder of a journalist in 1988, when the politician was a young army officer during the armed conflict between security forces and the Shining Path terrorist group.
A copy of the decision, reviewed by the AP, also indicates that Daniel Urresti, a popular 69-year-old politician, must be released immediately. Urresti's lawyer, Miguel Soria, told television station N that the court stated the statute of limitations had expired in 2008 and the trial began afterward.
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In 2023, [Urresti] was sentenced to prison after the courts determined that he participated, along with other military personnel, in the murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos. Bustíos was ambushed, gunned down, and blown up on Nov. 24, 1988, on a rural road in the Ayacucho region while traveling with a colleague—who survived—to cover the murders of two farmers."
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