Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori freed from prison on humanitarian grounds
by The Associated Press
Dec 06, 2023
3 minutes
Updated December 6, 2023 at 8:53 PM ET
LIMA, Peru — Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison Wednesday on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release.
Fujimori, 85, was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the slayings of 25 Peruvians by death squads in the 1990s. Peru's constitutional court ordered his immediate release on Tuesday, but the Inter-American Court of Human Rights asked
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