Security forces were responsible for extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture, and beatings. Although individual prison directors made some efforts to improve conditions in their own prisons, overall prison conditions remain extremely harsh, particularly in the case of prisoners jailed for terrorism offenses. Arbitrary detention, accountability, lack of due process, lengthy trial delays, and prolonged pretrial detention remain problems. The authorities at times infringed upon citizens' privacy rights. Violence against women and children and discrimination against the disabled, indigenous people, and minorities are continuing problems.
Child labor is also a problem.
As recently as early April 1997, the Peruvian army made a mass arrest of a jungle village and tortured the inhabitants into signing confessions that they were members of the Tupac Amaru movement. The Fujimori government justifies such abuses as necessary in a state of emergency. Since 1980, Peru has been under siege by two major revolutionary groups. Its tactics have included bombings, killings and torture of civilians, and abductions of teenagers for indoctrination into the movement. The Shining Path is thought to be responsible for over 25,000 deaths in Peru, with the military responsible for another 10,000.