Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations during his rule in the 1990s, was released on Wednesday night (6) after a court restored a controversial 2017 pardon .
The former president, who doctors say has serious health problems, was filmed on Wednesday leaving prison and going to the home of his eldest daughter and political heir, Keiko.
“Today we finally have our father at home,” Keiko said through a megaphone at the door of her home, where her father is now expected to reside.
Fujimori was convicted in 2009 of ordering the massacre of 25 people in 1991 and 1992, while his government was fighting Shining Path.
But he was pardoned on Christmas Eve 2017 by the president at the time, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. He was free for about nine months before a court declared it null and void.
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Since then, the pardon has been repeatedly annulled or suspended by lower courts after pressure from the Inter-American Court and victims’ families, but Peru’s constitutional court restored the pardon earlier this week.
(Produced by Carlos Valdez and Anna Portella)
Source: CNN Brasil
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