He Constitutional Court of Peruthe country’s highest judicial authority, ordered the “immediate” release of former president Alberto Fujimoriwho is currently 85 years old and was serving a sentence of 25 for “crimes against humanity.”
“This Constitutional Court orders that the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) and the Director of the Barbadillo Prisonon the day, arrange the immediate freedom of the favored, Alberto Fujimori Fujimoriunder responsibility,” the court indicated in the resolution released to the media.
The ruling is not appealable and, in this way, the judges restored the pardon that the former president had received in 2017 and then revoked by the Supreme Court in 2019.
The judges justified the decision by alleging Fujimori’s “broken” health. At the same time, he stressed that the former president has already “served approximately two-thirds of his sentence,” which makes him a beneficiary of the pardon.
The former president, 85 years old, suffers from various health problems, such as Tongue cancer, atrial fibrillation, lung ailments and hypertension.
Why was Alberto Fujimori convicted in 2009?
In 2009, Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to a sentence of 25 years for “crimes against humanity” for the massacres of Barrios Altos and La Canuta, where 25 people were murdered by the army under the orders of the then president.
The killings of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta They were two of the most repudiated events of Fujimori’s presidency. In 1991fifteen people were murdered, including a eight year old boyin a home in Barrios Altos, while in 1992, nine students and one teacher from the University of La Canuta They were kidnapped and murdered.
Although this is the strongest sentence that Keiko Fujimori’s father received, he was also held responsible for the journalist’s kidnappings. Gustavo Gorriti and the businessman Samuel Dyerbehind the self-coup that took place on April 5, 1992.
Source: Ambito
