Peru Judge Bars Fujimori From Leaving Country Once Released
A Peruvian judge has banned former President Alberto Fujimori from leaving the country for 18 months as soon as he leaves a prison where he has been serving a 25-year sentence for murder.
By Associated Press
|March 24, 2022, at 5:49 p.m.
FILE - Jailed former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, attends his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, April 23, 2014. Peru's Constitutional Court on Thursday, March 17, 2022, approved the release from prison of Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder and corruption charges. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian judge on Thursday banned former President Alberto Fujimori from leaving the country for 18 months as soon as he leaves a prison where he has been serving a 25-year sentence for murder.
Fujimori is expected to be released soon under a Constitutional Court order that last week revived a humanitarian pardon granted in 2017 by then-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Once released, the former president must face a new trial on charges of being the intellectual author of the murder of six peasants during his 1990-2000 administration.
Fujimori had been serving a 25-year prison sentence since 2007 for the murder of 25 Peruvians executed during his government by a clandestine military squad that killed with impunity while fighting the Shining Path terrorist group.
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