Peru detains opposition leader's top advisers at political rally
OCTOBER 15, 2018 / 11:50 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
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LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police detained two top advisers of jailed opposition leader Keiko Fujimori at a political demonstration on Monday, deepening a crisis at the heart of the country’s most powerful conservative movement.
Hundreds of people chanting “Keiko is innocent” marched through downtown Lima to protest against Fujimori’s arrest last Wednesday pending charges in a money laundering investigation.
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Their arrests were the latest blow to the conservative movement built by former autocrat Alberto Fujimori, Fujimori’s father, during his decade in power from 1990 to 2000.
Since his imprisonment for human rights crimes in 2007, Keiko has led her father’s political following. But she failed to win the presidency twice and has seen her popularity plummet as the head of the opposition party that runs Congress.
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