World Mar 18, 2022
Peru constitutional court orders release of ex-President Alberto Fujimori
The court's decisions cannot be appealed and the source said Fujimori should be released within a few days.
National / History | JAPAN TIMES GONE BY Dec 5, 2021
Safety was on the minds of the Japanese 100 and 75 years ago, while 25 years ago saw a hostage crisis develop in Peru.
World May 1, 2020
Peru's Keiko Fujimori to be freed from prison during graft investigation
Former Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori will be released from prison while she is under investigation for money laundering, her lawyer said on Thursday. Peru's supreme court accepted an appeal and ruled to revoke Fujimori's 15-month jail sentence, according to her lawyer, Giulliana Loza. Fujimori will ...
World / Crime & Legal Jan 29, 2020
Peru's Keiko Fujimori vows aggressive 'response to political persecution' as she's jailed again
As Peruvian authorities detained opposition leader Keiko Fujimori on Tuesday night for a new 15-month jail term, the politician published a pre-recorded video alleging "persecution" and vowing to "end her silence" on the case. A judge on Tuesday afternoon ordered her detention as prosecutors continue ...
World / Politics Nov 30, 2019
Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori walked free from prison Friday night after being jailed for more than a year pending a trial over allegations she accepted illegal campaign contributions from Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. Fujimori, leader of the powerful right-wing Popular Force party, left prison ...
World / Crime & Legal Oct 5, 2018
Peruvian ex-strongman Fujimori, 80, warns from hospital that return to prison will kill him
Peru's former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori on Thursday appealed to current President Martin Vizcarra and to judges not to return him to prison because his "heart would not cope." The former president, 80, spoke from a private clinic where he is undergoing treatment for heart ...
World / Politics Mar 22, 2018
Peru's center-right President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announced his resignation on Wednesday after vote-buying allegations ensnared him in a fresh scandal on the eve of an impeachment vote, capping months of political turmoil in one of Latin America's most stable economies. Kuczynski, a 79-year-old former Wall ...
World / Crime & Legal Feb 20, 2018
Peru court orders ex-President Alberto Fujimori to stand trial for 1992 mass killing
A Peruvian court ordered former President Alberto Fujimori on Monday to stand trial for the 1992 killings of six farmers, arguing that he lacks immunity despite a recent pardon for a different crime. The National Criminal Court said the pardon granted to Fujimori in a ...
World / Politics Feb 1, 2018
Son of Alberto Fujimori breaks with the opposition and says he will back Peruvian president
The youngest son of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori said on Wednesday that he would form a new political group to support the executive branch as President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and his center-right government grow increasingly isolated. Kenji Fujimori, whose popularity is surging, said he ...
World / Politics Jan 27, 2018
Three months before he granted Alberto Fujimori a pardon on medical grounds, Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski met the jailed former president's son, lawmaker Kenji Fujimori, to discuss his release, a source close to the president said. After a ceremony at the ornate presidential palace ...
World / Politics | ANALYSIS Dec 31, 2017
Jailed Peruvian ex-President Fujimori rallied loyalists to save Kuczynski from impeachment
by Mitra Taj and Marco Aquino
As Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski scrambled to survive a bid in Congress to oust him in the wake of a graft scandal, his jailed authoritarian predecessor, Alberto Fujimori, called on his loyalists in Congress to save the head of state. The day before the ...
World / Politics Jul 15, 2017
Old foes, former Peruvian leaders Humala and Fujimori now incarcerated at same prison
Ollanta Humala, Peru's former left-leaning president who was ordered to spend 18 months in pre-trial detention, on Friday was moved to a prison built for his longtime foe, the ex-autocratic leader Alberto Fujimori. Fujimori, 78, has spent the past decade as the lone inmate in ...