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Tag: Alberto Fujimori

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

    Leader Keiko Fujimori arrested for money laundering in Peru

    Keiko Fujimori was being investigated for allegedly receiving funds from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht for the 2011 presidential campaign.

    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”

    “Please do not kill me. If I return to prison my heart will not support it. It is too weak. Don't sentence me to death. I can give no more.”

    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

    The 80-year-old Fujimori, of Japanese descent, was president of Peru between 1990 and 2000.

    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

    Fujimori, 79, was pardoned by the current Peruvian president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, on December 24 on humanitarian grounds because of ill health.

    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.

  • Tuesday, January 30th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

    Peruvian public opinion divided in halves over pardon to ex president Fujimori

    In late December, Kuczynski granted the 79-year-old Fujimori a pardon on medical grounds, allowing him to leave prison.

    Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s approval rating has fallen to 19% since he granted a pardon to authoritarian former President Alberto Fujimori, a decision that has deeply divided the country, a poll showed on Sunday.

  • Sunday, January 7th 2018 - 09:01 UTC

    Released Fujimori calls to set aside “grudges”; anticipation of an alliance with Kuczynski?

    Fujimori took to Twitter to reflect on the new chapter in his life following a decade in prison serving a 25-year prison sentence for graft and human rights crimes.

    Recently pardoned former president Alberto Fujimori called for Peruvians on Saturday to set aside their “grudges” in order to unite against violence and crime, appealing to his right-wing political base two days after being freed from prison by a presidential pardon.

  • Friday, December 29th 2017 - 10:14 UTC

    UN human rights experts condemn pardon of ex president Alberto Fujimori

    Experts include Agnès Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions; Pablo de Greiff, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth

    Condemning the pardoning of former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, a group of United Nations independent human rights experts have said that the move undermines the work of the judiciary and the international community to achieve justice.

  • Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 10:54 UTC

    Fujimori from hospital apologizes to “those whom he let down”

    Fujimori lay propped up on a hospital bed wearing a white gown, with a blood pressure cuff on his right arm and another monitor clasped to his left index finger.

    Peru's ailing former leader Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday asked the public for forgiveness, two days after receiving a presidential pardon that sparked street protests.”I am aware that the results of my government were well received on one side, but I admit that I have let down other compatriots, and I ask them to forgive me with all my heart,’ Fujimori said in a Facebook video filmed from his hospital bed.

  • Monday, December 25th 2017 - 18:14 UTC

    Ex president Fujimori granted a medical pardon; he was serving 25-year sentence

    Alberto Fujimori (1990 to 2000), is a polarizing figure in Peru. Some laud him for defeating the guerrilla movement, others loathe him for human rights violations

    The Peruvian president announced on Sunday night that he granted a medical pardon to jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, corruption and the sanctioning of death squads. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski released a statement on Christmas Eve saying he decided to free Fujimori for “humanitarian reasons,” citing doctors who had determined the ex-leader suffers from incurable and degenerative problems.

  • Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 09:23 UTC

    Divided Fujimori opposition helped Kuczynski avoid removal from office

    Kuczynski’s government had denied that a pardon for imprisoned Alberto Fujimori would be part of a political negotiation.

    Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has thwarted a bid in Congress to force him out over a graft scandal, as an opposition lawmaker accused him of securing votes by promising to free ex-president Alberto Fujimori from jail. Before Thursday evening’s vote on a motion to push him out, Kuczynski urged lawmakers to set aside unproven allegations of graft against him to defend Peru from what he called a coup attempt by the right-wing Popular Force party.