Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is to be pardoned. The Constitutional Court granted a motion to annul the lifting of a pardon given to Fujimori.
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was originally sentenced to 25 years in prison.
(dpa) Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is set to be released more than ten years before his sentence for human rights violations expires. The constitutional court of the South American country on Thursday granted a motion to annul the lifting of a pardon given to Fujimori – the pardon is now in force again.
The then President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had pardoned the ex-head of state on Christmas 2017 because of his poor health on humanitarian grounds. However, Kuczynski’s decision was controversial. Peru’s Supreme Court then ruled the pardon unconstitutional and overturned it in October 2018.
The 83-year-old Fujimori was serving a 25-year sentence for serious human rights violations. During his term of office from 1990 to 2000, he had the security forces take rigorous action against left-wing and allegedly subversive forces, and parliament was disempowered. At the time, the state saw itself threatened by the Maoist terrorist organization Shining Path. In addition, tens of thousands of indigenous women were forcibly sterilized in order to reduce their number of children. They were seen as an obstacle to development.