More than four hundred people falsely convicted on terrorist charges in Peru are to have their criminal records wiped clean, the Peruvian government has decided.

Some four hundred and thirty eight people have been released from jail and pardoned in the past two years after a commission ruled they were innocent of all charges of terrorism or treason.

Now their prison sentences are to be deleted from their records, they are to have any pending charges against them dropped, and they will not have to pay fines imposed on them by military tribunals.