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Peru's Judiciary: It is false that terrorists Morote and Liendo were released

17:08 | Lima, Apr. 27.

The Judiciary on Monday clarified that Shining Path terrorist group leaders Osman Morote and Margot Liendo —both sentenced to life imprisonment for the car bomb attack on Lima's Tarata Street in 1992— have not been not released from prison.

Edhin Campos —a member of the First Transitional Criminal Chamber of the National Superior Court of Special Criminal Justice who imposed the sentence— deemed the information —about an alleged release published by some media outlets, as well as on social media— as false.

Both terrorists —among others— were sentenced to life in prison in September 2018, as the masterminds of the car bomb attack on Tarata Street in Lima Metropolitan Area's Miraflores district. It led to the death of 25 people.

"The news that has been spreading for a few days has caused us plenty of outrage. People call to ask me if it is true, but it is not true," the magistrate remarked.

The judge specified that —after the sentence of life imprisonment was issued— the convicts filed an appeal for annulment, which is still pending before the Supreme Court of Justice.

Campos recalled that —although in April 2018 they both had been released after serving a 25-year sentence in another trial also for the crime of terrorism— the

measure was declared null and void once they received the life sentence on September 2018 over the Tarata Bombing Case.

As is known, the Inca nation's dark 1980-2000 terrorism episode is estimated to have claimed over 69,000 lives, according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).