MOVADEF, The Political Arm of Shining Path
The Movement for Amnesty and Fundamental Rights (MOVADEF) is an organization that tried to register as a lawful political party according to Peruvian law. However, its registration was denied by the Peruvian JNE. According to the organization's own website, they are "A group of grassroots leaders, intellectuals and people artists, as well as lawyers who defend political prisoners and social outcasts, who guided to serve the people with all our hearts and with absolute disinterest, have constituted the "Movimiento Por Amnistía y Derechos Fundamentales" In its own website (in Spanish) they also say, among many mottos, "¡Down with the political pursuit against communists, marxists-leninists-maoists, Gonzalo Thought and the real democrats" In their publication called "General Amnesty", they openly advocate freeing Abimael Guzmán.
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