A hardline opponent of the human rights community in Peru has been designated as National Prosecutor in Constitutional Matters. A former anti-terrorism Prosecutor, Julio Galindo, was appointed on 1 June by President Ollanta Humala, the prime minister and the head of the judiciary, and will now form part of the Legal Defence Council, an advisory body to the executive.

Galindo stepped down from the Public Prosecutors Special Office on Crimes of Terrorism earlier this year. He had been the subject of robust criticism, including from representatives of the government, for claiming that the controversial theatre production La Cautiva, performed in early 2015, was in violation of the crime of justifying terrorism (delito de apologia) and threatening its creators with imprisonment. An official investigation by the Anti-Terrorism Directorate (DIRCOTE) prompted a public outcry and defence of the play by the Ministry of Culture, among others.

Eventually, Galindo was forced to acknowledge that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate his claim. Nevertheless, he persisted in denouncing the production as showing “reasonable indications that the piece is poised on the edge of freedom and the crime of justifying terrorism”. He went onto argue that La Cautiva “attacked the institutional image of the military and suggests that they all committed human rights violations”.
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