Peru's jailed former President Alberto Fujimori seeks pardon due to ill health

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Peru's jailed former President Alberto Fujimori seeks pardon due to ill health

Peru's jailed former president, Alberto Fujimori, has requested a pardon due to ill health. Fujimori's request comes less than a week before the country's new president takes office.

24.07.2016


"Alberto Fujimori has filed a pardon request with the Justice Ministry. It will be processed under due constitutional and legal terms," Prime Minister Pedro Cateriano said in a tweet on Saturday.

Fujimori - who is serving a 25-year prison term for corruption and crimes against humanity - has been in and out of the hospital in recent months with gastric problems. The 77-year-old has also had cataract surgery and has had five operations for a cancerous growth on his tongue.

Fujimori's latest hospitalization in June came shortly after his daughter, Keiko Fujimori, narrowly lost the presidential election to center-right candidate Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Kuczynski takes office on Thursday.

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Fujimori was president from 1990 to 2000 and was jailed in 2007 and convicted in 2009 for his role in killings by a death squad targeting members of the Shining Path guerrilla group in the 1990s. He was also convicted of embezzlement and bribery.

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[Demonaut]

1. leave him in jail, he deserves his sentence