Peru: Complaint to The Hague Against President Dina Boluarte

Dina Boluarte, the president of Peru, is at the center of a storm: a complaint has been filed against her at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The reason is the people who died when her government took power in December 2022 after street protests, in which demonstrators claimed a coup d’état to overthrow President Pedro Castillo.

In June 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Association for Human Rights (APRODEH) filed the first case against Boluarte at the ICC. This time it was the Institute for Legal Defense (IDL) that was on the front lines. The demand is always the same: to take into account what happened in December 2022; the appellants argue that they are based on accounts reconstructed by various countries, the UN, and human rights associations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.