Tag: Alberto Fujimori

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Peruvian jailed ex president Fujimori hospitalized with lung problems

  

  Peru's jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori was hospitalized on Monday in Lima after suffering neurological and lung problems, his family doctor revealed. Fujimori, 81, is serving a 25-year jail sentence for ordering two massacres by death squads in 1991 and 1992.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Kenji Fujimori faces 12-year prison for attempting to buy votes in Peruvian congress

  

  Peruvian prosecutors are seeking a 12-year prison term for former lawmaker Kenji Fujimori on charges of attempting to buy votes in a plot to keep ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from being impeached. Prosecutor Bersabeth Revilla accused the son of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori of bribery and influence-peddling.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Keiko Fujimori out of prison struggling to recover her party's position as leader of the Peruvian opposition

  

  Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, who was released from prison on Friday, grew up during her father Alberto Fujimori's deeply divisive reign as president from 1990 to 2000. Keiko, now 44, sided with her father when her mother Susana Higuchi accused Alberto's men of torturing her and divorced him in 1994. Keiko Fujimori took over first lady duties at the age of just 19.

• Thursday, October 24th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Mexico, an example of the financial plight of the Latin American media

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December promising to reduce public spending to free up more resources for the poor. But his austerity drive has left media outlets reeling, and raised questions about whether Lopez Obrador is trying to influence coverage.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Peruvian ex president Fujimori again hospitalized, third time in forty days

  

  Former Peru president Alberto Fujimori has been taken to hospital again with heart problems, his doctor announced on Monday. Alejandro Aguinaga said the 81-year-old former president was taken to Lima's Centenario clinic on Saturday night “with cardiac problems.”

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Peruvian powerful leader Keiko Fujimori ordered to jail on corruption charges

  

  Former Peruvian first daughter Keiko Fujimori was ordered back to jail Wednesday in a case that has captured attention in a country reeling from a series of corruption scandals reaching into the highest echelons of power.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2018 - 19:01 UTC

  Leader Keiko Fujimori arrested for money laundering in Peru

  

  A week after the justice annulled the pardon to her father, the former president Alberto Fujimori, after a request of the Peru's Attorney of Wash of Assets, the powerful leader of the Popular Force party, Keiko Fujimori, was arrested in Lima on Wednesday after going to a court to be questioned with her husband. The arrest occurred amid an investigation for alleged irregular handling of funds of the party's campaign for 2011 presidential elections.

• Friday, October 5th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Fujimori pleads for his life: a return to prison means a “death sentence”

  

  Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori said from his hospital bed on Thursday that a return to prison would be a “death sentence,” the day after a court revoked a pardon for crimes against humanity. Fujimori, 80, addressed a plea to Peru's President Martin Vizcarra and the country's judiciary in a video recorded at his bedside.

• Thursday, October 4th 2018 - 12:14 UTC

  Fujimori's pardon reversed, due back in jail goes to hospital instead

  

  Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's pardon was reversed by a court of law Wednesday, ruling that he must go back to prison. Instead, he was admitted into a hospital on health grounds.

• Tuesday, February 20th 2018 - 09:36 UTC

  Despite pardon Fujimori will have to stand trial for the 1992 killings of six farmers

  

  A Peruvian court ordered former president Alberto Fujimori on Monday to stand trial for the 1992 killings of six farmers, arguing that he lacks immunity despite a recent pardon for a different crime. The National Criminal Court said the pardon granted to Fujimori in a human rights case for which he was serving a 25-year sentence did not apply to the murders of the group.