INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES RESOLUTION PERU (of more 400 delegates of 23 countries) Manila, Philippines 19-21 July 2013
M Ollanta Humala President of Peru Palacio de Gobierno Lima, Peru The INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES has approved this resolution asking for the immediate liberation of Doctor Abimael Guzman Reinoso, Chairman of the Communist Party of Peru and a complete stop to the cruel persecution in Peru. The United Nations in their reports number 5 and 6 relating to Peru’s political prisoners situation, has approved in its Committee Against Torture, in October 2012, that: …the conditions in the high security military prison in the Callao’s Naval Base in Peru, with prolonged solitary confinement, sensory isolation, prohibition to communicate, is a regimen of torture and the Committee is against this. They communicated that the Peruvian State must change this and implement the Standard Minimum Rules of the United Nations for prisoners. Doctor Abimael Guzman Reinoso, an important international political leader, is almost 79 years old, and has been incarcerated for 21 years in this military prison, after an arbitrary trial. He is in absolute isolation and total solitary confinement, and his hard prison’s conditions have been exacerbated. Recently he had severe heart and health problems. The military prison of Callao’s Naval Base has never taken him to a hospital in this more than 21 years of imprisonment. The United Nations Committee has stated that this practice is torture, and that the Peruvian State must change this cruel practice. Many organizations and people in your country are asking you for a political solution, a general amnesty for a national reconciliation, for peace, democracy and development. We ask you to accept this demands. Free Doctor Abimael Guzman Reinoso. We expect you to grant our demands. With our regards, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES Manila, July 21, 2013.