Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori freed from prison on humanitarian grounds

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori freed from prison on humanitarian grounds Enlarge this image toggle caption Martin Mejia/AP Martin Mejia/AP 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. If, according to the ruling of this Court in March 2022, the judicial resolutions that left the 2017 humanitarian pardon without legal effect were declared null, then has been pardoned for almost six years without his freedom having been made effective to this day, which constitutes an obvious violation of this fundamental right," according to the ruling that also considered Fujimori's advanced age and poor health. After the Constitutional Court issued its latest ruling, the president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Ricardo Pérez Manrique, in a resolution asked for the delay of Fujimori's release in order to "guarantee the right of access to justice" of the 25 people who were murdered in two massacres. Sponsor Message The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday said the Constitutional Court's order to release Fujimori "is a worrying setback," adding that "any humanitarian release of those responsible for serious human rights violations must be in accordance with international law."