Ley de Caducidad de la Pretensión Punitiva del Estado
The Ley de Caducidad de la Pretensión Punitiva del Estado (German: Law on the statute of limitations for state prosecution claims ), popularly often simply referred to as Ley de Caducidad , is a law of the State of Uruguay .
The norm with the number 15.848 passed by the parliament on December 22, 1986 in the reign of Julio María Sanguinetti , is an amnesty law, which makes it difficult to prosecute the crimes committed during the Uruguayan civil-military dictatorship from 1973 to 1985. In a referendum in 1989, the majority of the population initially found the law, with 55.9% voting in favor of the law. The controversial law was declared unconstitutional in February 2009 in response to a request from the Supreme Court by both the government and both chambers of the Uruguayan parliament and again in 2010 and, in the case of Miguel Dalmaos, for the first time by the Supreme Court inapplicable. It originally came about through the votes of almost all members of the Partido Colorado, with the exception of one and a part of those of the Partido Nacional . The votes against came from the members of the Frente Amplio and some other MPs.
On October 27, 2011, the law was finally de facto repealed by Ley Nº 18.831 .
See also
Web links
- Law 15.848 in full (Spanish)
- Ley Nº 15.848: CADUCIDAD DE LA PRETENSION PUNITIVA DEL ESTADO (PDF; 117 kB) (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mass media in Latin America - third volume: Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia by Jürgen Wilke , Vervuet Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, p. 197.
- ↑ "BTI 2010 - Uruguay Country Report" (English)
- ↑ General charged in Uruguay with murder during dictatorship , AFP, November 8, 2010
- ↑ The open wounds of Latin America: Politics of the past in post-authoritarian Argentina, Uruguay and Chile by Veith Straßner
- ↑ Ley Nº 18.831 ( Memento from April 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Spanish), accessed on March 21, 2012