Peruvian constitutional court orders release of former President Alberto Fujimori

Peruvian constitutional court orders release of former President Alberto Fujimori Enlarge this image toggle caption Martin Mejia/AP Martin Mejia/AP LIMA, Peru — Peru's constitutional court ordered an immediate humanitarian release Tuesday for imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori, 85, who was serving a 25-year sentence in connection with the death squad slayings of 25 Peruvians in the 1990s. In a resolution seen by The Associated Press, the court told the state prisons agency to immediately release Fujimori "on the same day." Fujimori's 2017 pardon granted by then-President Pablo Kuczynski was annulled under pressure from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and its status was the subject of legal wrangling since then. The constitutional court previously had ordered a lower court in the southern city of Ica to release Fujimori, but that court declined to do so, arguing in ruling last Friday that it lacked the authority.