{"id":516522,"date":"2026-07-20T23:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/congress-of-peru-enacts-law-excluding-police-and-military-from-common-justice\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:43:17","slug":"congress-of-peru-enacts-law-excluding-police-and-military-from-common-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/congress-of-peru-enacts-law-excluding-police-and-military-from-common-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress of Peru enacts law excluding police and military from common justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lima<\/strong>.- The President of the Congress of Peru, Fernando Rospigliosi, enacted a law this Monday that excludes police and military personnel from being prosecuted by the common justice system for crimes committed during the exercise of their duties, and which includes a life imprisonment sentence when they collaborate with criminal gangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Less than a week before the conclusion of the current unicameral Congress&#8217;s activities, the head of Parliament enacted the law that modifies the Military-Police Penal Code and the New Penal Procedural Code to clarify the crime of function, strengthen military and police functions, and establish sanctions for members of the Armed Forces and the National Police of Peru who participate in criminal gangs or organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The enactment was left in the hands of Rospigliosi, a legislator from the Fujimorist party Fuerza Popular, after it was not enacted by Peru&#8217;s interim president, the leftist Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Balc\u00e1zar, within the constitutional deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/peru-desclara-emergencia-sismo\/\">Peru declares emergency in central highlands districts<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that sense, the regulation establishes that, in no case, may criminal proceedings be followed simultaneously in the ordinary and military-police jurisdictions against the same soldier or police officer when the facts and the subjects investigated or prosecuted are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@deultimominutotv\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@deultimominutotv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lima.- The President of the Congress of Peru, Fernando Rospigliosi, enacted a law this Monday that excludes police and military personnel from being prosecuted by the common justice system for crimes committed during the exercise of their duties, and which includes a life imprisonment sentence when they collaborate with criminal gangs. 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