Alberto Fujimori

Blume stressed the court was not weighing in on the accusations against Humala and Heredia and that the couple will have to comply with court-mandated restrictions while investigations continue. Humala had been sharing a prison with Fujimori's father, former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori, until ...

LIMA, Peru: Prosecutors in Peru will indict former president Alberto Fujimori and three ex-ministers over the forced sterilization of five women while he was in office, a human rights group says. According to Milton Campos, who represents the Peruvian women's rights group DEMUS, at least 2,164 people ...

Charges are set to be reissued against Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori, over the alleged forced sterilisation of five women during his time in office. Three of his former health ministers will also be indicted, the country's chief prosecutor said. Around 300,000 women had surgery as part of a ...

District Attorney Luis Landa has ordered charges of criminal responsibility to be brought against former President Alberto Fujimori and several other people from his government, including three cabinet members, for the forced sterilizations of 2,166 women during the Fujimori administration. Besides ...

Lima (AFP) - Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori, just four months out of prison under a controversial pardon, was in court Friday facing charges linked to the killing of seven farmers in 1992. Peru's ex-president Fujimori in court over 1992 massacre. Fujimori, president from 1990-2000, had been serving a 25-year prison ...

LIMA: Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori, just four months out of prison under a controversial pardon, was in court on Friday facing charges linked to the killing of seven farmers in 1992. Fujimori, president from 1990-2000, had been serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes that included ...

LIMA – Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori, just four months out of prison under a controversial pardon, was in court Friday facing charges linked to the killing of seven farmers in 1992. Fujimori, president from 1990-2000, had been serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes that included commanding ...

Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori has a tumor in his lungs and won't be making a return to politics, the one-time dictator has announced. RELATED: Peru's Congress Allows Entry of Over 500 US Troops. "A small tumor in one of the lungs has been detected... I must be under observation every four ...

Former President of Peru Alberto Fujimori attends a trial as a witness at the navy base in Callao, Peru March 15, 2018. ... LIMA: Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori, who was pardoned in December while serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, on Friday said medical tests had revealed a ...

Still reeling from the abrupt resignation of its president last month, Peru is now captivated by a new political drama: the sibling rivalry between the children of the former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori, as they battle over his controversial legacy. The power struggle between Keiko and Kenji Fujimori ...

New Justice Minister Salvador Heresi is a former lawmaker who spoke repeatedly in favor of Kuczynski's widely criticized decision to give a pardon on medical grounds to former Peruvian strongman Alberto Fujimori. The Inter-American Court on Human Rights is expected to rule in the coming months on ...

“We've always said that Alberto Fujimori is not made of iron. He has affections, feelings.” Keiko Fujimori, 42, has run twice for president, losing by a hair in 2016 to Kuczynski, and heads the main opposition Popular Force party. But Kenji, 37, has risen to the point where he threatens to overshadow his big ...

Ironically, Kuczynski´s demise echoed what happened to Alberto Fujimori himself in 2000, at the end of his decade-long run as Peru´s president. Fujimori had resigned the presidency by fax — sent from exile in a hotel room in Japan. But Congress rejected the resignation, choosing instead to punish the ...

Efforts to oust the unpopular Kuczynski led by Fujimori, the daughter of former strongman Alberto Fujimori, had been building for months. But the campaign went into overdrive this week after the emergence of secretly shot videos showed allies of Kuczynski, including a son of Alberto Fujimori, allegedly ...

He called them “the Fujis,” a derisive reference to Keiko Fujimori, a former member of Congress and the leader of the Fuerza Popular Party; Kenji Fujimori, Keiko's brother and also a member of Fuerza Popular; and Alberto Fujimori, their father and the country's disgraced former President, who was doing ...

Alberto Fujimori, whose bloody decade in charge from 1990-2000 was marked by human rights abuses, was pardoned in December. But the 79-year-old now faces trial for ordering the killing of six farmers in 1992. Until Tuesday's release of the compromising video, Kenji had the highest approval rating ...

On Wednesday, the President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuzcynski (PPK) presented his resignation in a press conference, after videos showcasing his government's corrupt practices were leaked. In these videos, Congressman Kenji Fujimori, son of former dictator Alberto Fujimori is shown trying to buy votes ...

Marly Anzualdo was getting ready to celebrate Christmas Eve in Callao, a port city on the outskirts of Lima, when she learned that President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, better known as PPK, had pardoned former president Alberto Fujimori. Convicted of human rights violations and corruption in a landmark ...

Days after surviving the first impeachment vote, PPK pardoned former President Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses while he was in office. “This government believed it could buy anything with cash. Mistake,” Keiko Fujimori said in a tweet. After the videos became ...

Two days after the failed ouster, Mr. Kuczynski pardoned Alberto Fujimori on medical grounds. [ALSO READ: Peru Leader Could Be Biggest to Fall in Latin American Graft Scandal]. In the end, Mr. Kuczynski intertwined his fate with that of the Fujimori family. And while Kenji Fujimori saved Mr. Kuczynski last ...

Although in opinion polls a majority believe Kenji's decision led to the presidential pardon of his father, Alberto Fujimori, within his party the move earned him a 120-day suspension from the party, and in late January the party leadership recommended he be expelled, along with lawmakers Maritza Garcia ...

When former President Alberto Fujimori was granted his controversial pardon on Christmas Eve last year, one of the questions was whether this would exclude him from any pending investigation or trial. This week in a unanimous vote, the National Criminal Court ruled that the pardon did not include ...

Alberto Fujimori deserves to face this trial in freedom." But Erika Guevara Rosas, director of the Americas at Amnesty International, praised the ruling. "Today the victims, families and Peruvian society have achieved an important step towards justice and preserving the memory of the victims of these crimes," ...

LIMA, Peru — Alberto Fujimori, the professor-turned-strongman who ruled Peru with an iron grip in the 1990s, acknowledged on Tuesday that he had disappointed many of his countrymen, and he asked their forgiveness “with all my heart.” The comments, Mr. Fujimori's first public remarks since President ...

Few political developments in Latin America's democratic life have been as unexpected and controversial as Peru's former president, Alberto Fujimori, receiving a presidential pardon. Having served less than half his sentence – 25 years for serious human rights violations that include killings, kidnapping, ...

Kuczynski narrowly avoided impeachment the first time in December, when he was alleged to have made a deal with lawmaker Kenji Fujimori and other members of Peru's right-wing party, Popular Force, pardoning Fujimori's father, Alberto Fujimori, the former president and dictator of Peru, in exchange for ...

Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori feels better after being hospitalized earlier this week, but a feud between his politically ambitious children is not helping the recovery, his doctor said Thursday. “There is an improvement,” said the disgraced Fujimori's personal doctor, Alejandro Aguinaga, who ...