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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year prison term for human rights abuses during his decade-long rule in the 1990s, was released in December 2023. — AFP pic
LIMA, April 17 — Peru has defended its decision before a human rights court to free ex-president Alberto Fujimori from prison after he only served part of a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity.
Fujimori was sent to prison in 2009 over massacres committed by army death squads in 1991 and 1992 in which 25 people, including a child, were killed in supposed anti-terrorist operations.
In December, the Constitutional Court ordered him freed for humanitarian reasons, reinstating a pardon that was first granted in 2017 but revoked by the Supreme Court two years later.
The Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights urged authorities at the time to delay freeing Fujimori while it analysed the court ruling, but he was released anyway.
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On Tuesday, Justice Minister Eduardo Arana told reporters Peru had filed a report with the court arguing that it had acted “in strict compliance with the principles of legality and justice.”
The court had requested a report in December, considering Peru may have been in contempt.
“We are respectful of the inter-American human rights system of which Peru is a part,” said Arana.
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However, “the Peruvian state will not allow its sovereignty to be affected by unjust or incorrect decisions,” he said. — AFP
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