Case study: short preliminary assessment of the current state of emergency in El Callao, in the light of the Peruvian Constitutional Law and International Law of Human Rights
Authors
Abraham Siles Vallejos
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
The article is a case study that assesses the state of emergency, recently introduced and extended successively in the Constitutional Province of Callao (Peru), to address a problem of public insecurity caused by common crime and organized crime. Revises certain aspects of the implementation of this institute of constitutional exception in practice, and in particular examines two central problems: on the one hand, whether the threat defined by the Executive supposes an affectation to the life of the nation and, on the other hand, that of whether the principle of temporality is respected; both requirements established by the Peruvian Constitution and the International Human Rights Law. The article concludes that it is not justified and rather illegitimate maintaining the state of emergency in El Callao, in the light of the Peruvian Constitution and standards of International Law of Human Rights.
Keywords:
Public security - state of emergency - regime of exception - affectation to the life of the nation - principle of temporality.
Siles Vallejos, A. (2017). Case study: short preliminary assessment of the current state of emergency in El Callao, in the light of the Peruvian Constitutional Law and International Law of Human Rights. Revista De Derecho Público, (85), 123–140. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5249.2016.44962
