Peru annuls ex-leader Fujimori’s pardon and orders his capture. Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for commanding right-wing death squads that massacred civilians.
Peru’s former authoritarian president Alberto Fujimori was transported by ambulance to a local clinic after a judge annulled a pardon granted to him last year and ordered his immediate return to prison.
The ruling by Supreme Court Judge Hugo Nunez on Wednesday marked the latest reversal in fortunes for Fujimori, an agricultural engineer who rose to the presidency on a populist platform in 1990 and a decade later resigned by fax from his parents’ homeland of Japan amid graft and human rights abuse allegations.
Fujimori’s attorney Miguel Perez immediately filed an appeal and requested a suspension of the arrest order, arguing that Fujimori suffers from heart problems that put him at risk of dying if sent back to jail. Perez said by telephone that it could take weeks for a ruling on the appeal.
Fujimori, who has been hospitalised several times in recent years, was rushed to the clinic from his house several hours after the ruling, according to witnesses.
