The owner of Marta Huatai’s legal address indicates that she has not lived there “since 2008,” according to prosecutors.

This was reported by the National Prosecutor’s Office. Martha Huatai Ruiza lawyer associated with the Sendero Luminoso terrorist organization could not have been notified at her legal address of the remand hearing against her due to take place today, Thursday, in the Tarat case.

As he claimed Pablo Cesar Espinozathe representative of the Ministry of Health, the owner of the said property indicated that Huatai Ruiz He has not lived there since 2008.

“He public service complies with the formalities required by the Code of Criminal Procedure (…) This check was commissioned by the Ministry of Public Administration to confirm the defendant’s home. According to the owner of the facility, he has not lived there since 2008,” the prosecutor said.

This information was in response to a request from the public defender, Yudmore Frith Espinoza so “no hearing scheduled” because notice of the relevant law was not given to the accused.

Prosecutor Pablo Espinoza emphasized that the Peruvian National Police (PNP) maintains the protocol for checking the house by order of his department.

Continuation of the hearing

In this regard, the magistrate Soledad Barrueto agreed that Martha Huatai be notified again of this remand hearing, but this time in accordance with the prosecuting decree published for three consecutive days through the Official Gazette of El Peruano.

The judge clarified that after this procedure, a new date for the hearing in the pre-trial detention case would be set and, if Martha Huatai do not accredit a private lawyer, you will be assigned a public defender.

It should be noted that the Second Supra-Provincial Criminal Prosecutor, specializing in human rights, intercultural relations and crimes of terrorism, applied for 9 months of pre-trial detention in respect of a person under investigation in connection with the 1992 attack on Tarata Street in the Miraflores district.

However, according to the newspaper Tradethe former Senderist leader left for Argentina in June 2022 and has not returned to Peru since.

Martha Huatai77 years old, released on October 16, 2017 after serving a 25-year prison sentence for the crime of terrorism for being a member of Socorro Popular, a group in charge of legally defending detained Senderists and organizing protests and attacks in the 1980s and 1990s in our country.