Peruvian court OKs prison release for ex-President Fujimori
A young man wears a mask against the spread of the new coronavirus that has text that reads in Spanish"Fujimori never more," as demonstrators protest against the decision of Peru's Constitutional Court approving the release from prison of former President Alberto Fujimori in Lima, Peru, Thursday, March 17, 2022. A court official said the court restored a humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori on Christmas Eve in 2017 by then President Pablo Kuczynski.
Kuczynski had said he pardoned Fujimori because he suffered a heart condition made worse by prison conditions, though the move was widely seen as an attempt to stave off impeachment by courting favor with Fujimori’s allies in Congress. Kuczynski resigned three months after the pardon.People gathered outside the prison hoping to see the 83-year-old Fujimori exit, though authorities gave no indication his release was imminent.
Fujimori, who governed from 1990 to 2000, remains a polarizing figure in the Andean country. Some Peruvians laud him for defeating the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement, while others loathe him for human rights violations carried out under his government.A former mathematics professor, Fujimori was a political outsider when he emerged from obscurity to win Peru’s 1990 presidential election over writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
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