Alberto Fujimori: Peru's ex-president freed after 15 years in jail
Source: BBC
Alberto Fujimori: Peru's ex-president freed after 15 years in jail
7 December 2023
By Leonardo Rocha & Nadeem Shad
BBC News
Peru's former president, Alberto Fujimori, has been released from prison in the country's capital having spent more than 15 years incarcerated.
Hundreds of supporters surrounded his car as he left Lima's Barbadillo prison.
The nation's constitutional court reinstated a presidential pardon issued six years ago to the 85-year-old.
He is a highly divisive figure having been jailed for corruption and human rights violations while in office.
The former president had been serving out a 25-year prison sentence at the time of his pardon.
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Mr Fujimori departing the Barbadillo prison in Lima with this his daughter Keiko (Getty Images)
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