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Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto was born on July 26, 1938 in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru [2] [12] to Japanese parents Naoichi Fujimori (né Minami) and Mutsue Inomoto. His parents were originally from Kumamoto Prefecture and immigrated to immigrated to Peru in 1934 [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Fujimori's parents were Buddhists , but he was baptized ...
Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison on Wednesday ahead of the completion of his sentence for authorizing the operation of a death squad in his country, according to ...
LIMA (Reuters) -Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who steered economic growth during the 1990s but was later jailed for human rights abuses stemming from a bloody war against Maoist ...
Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1936 - 2024) during a press conference, New York, New York, March 14, 1995. Credit - Najlah Feanny—Corbis via Getty Images
Fujimori was already serving a six-year prison sentence for his December 2007 conviction on abuse of power charges. The trial for Fujimori's human rights abuses lasted 15 months, and was postponed on multiple occasions due to his ill health. [55] [57] Later on 7 April, the court sentenced Fujimori to 25 years in prison. [58]
The Grupo Colina (Spanish for "hill group", pronounced [ˈɡɾupo koˈlina]) was a military anti-communist death squad created in Peru that was active from October 1991 until November 1992, during the administration of president Alberto Fujimori.
Alberto Fujimori, the first man of Japanese heritage to become leader of a Latin American nation, was a university administrator who came from nowhere to win Peru's presidency in 1990.
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Fujimori's lawyers on 13 February 2019, confirming the earlier decision that Fujimori must serve the remaining 13 years of his sentence in prison. [ 45 ] The Constitutional Court of Peru , in a 4-3 ruling on 17 March 2022, reinstated the pardon, though it was not clear if or when he may be released. [ 13 ]