Former President Alberto Fujimori could be released from prison this week after Peru’s Constitutional Court approved his release from a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges.
The decision restored a humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori on Christmas Eve in 2017 by then-President Pablo Kuczynski.
The ruling, which was published on Thursday, showed judges voted 4-3 to free Fujimori.
The Washington Post reported that “Judge Miluska Cano of the Fourth Criminal Chamber ordered that Fujimori may not leave Peru “for 18 months.” Once released, the former president must face a new trial on charges of being the intellectual author of the murder of six peasants during his 1990-2000 administration.”
Aljazeera/The Washington Post.
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