Peru court overturns pardon of ex-leader Fujimori
Source: Associated Press
Franklin Briceno, Associated Press
Updated 7:35 pm CDT, Wednesday, October 3, 2018
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a medical pardon for former President Alberto Fujimori and ordered the strongman be returned to jail to serve out a long sentence for human rights abuses.
Images broadcast on local television stations showed the 80-year-old Fujimori getting out of an ambulance with the help of a cane and entering a local health clinic where he has received treatment in the past. He was accompanied by his youngest son Kenji. Various police agents waited outside the clinic.
Former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori on humanitarian grounds last Christmas Eve in what was widely seen as an attempt to stave off impeachment by courting favor with Fujimori's allies in Congress. Kuczynski resigned three months later.
Almost from the outset, the ruling was slammed by human rights groups as a "pact of impunity," while the Inter-American Court on Human Rights had also demanded that Peru review its legality.
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