Keiko Fujimori May Seek Pardon for Father After Christmas – Report

Ex-Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori said that her family will seek a humanitarian pardon for her father, former president Alberto Fujimori, after Christmas, daily El Comercio reported. Keiko Fujimori, who was a member of Congress until July 2011, said that the family and its lawyers are currently gathering the necessary documentation to make the request to President Ollanta [...]

Ipsos Apoyo Poll: 66 Percent Support Pardon for Ex-President Fujimori

Public support for President Ollanta Humala to grant a humanitarian pardon for ex-President Alberto Fujimori for health reasons is at 66 percent, according to a new national poll published by Ipsos Apoyo on Sunday. The poll, published in daily El Comercio, found that 30 percent of respondents would not support the pardon. Although the Justice [...]

Fujimori Lawyer: Family Not Behind Recent Pardon Request

The family of imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori was not involved in a recent request to grant Fujimori a humanitarian pardon, according to Cesar Nakazaki, the president’s lawyer. Newspaper El Comercio reported this week that Cesareo Vargas, a questionable former advisor to election authority ONPE during Fujimori’s corruption-riddled run for office in 2000, made the citizen [...]

Justice Minister: Fujimori Pardon Not On the Agenda

Peru’s new Justice Minister, Juan Jimenez, said Thursday that the government has not raised the issue of a possible pardon for jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori. “We are not at this moment discussing the issue. Please take it off the agenda,” Jimenez, who was appointed to the post on Sunday during a major cabinet shuffle, told [...]

Keiko Fujimori: Moment Is Coming To Request Pardon For Father

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori, said Tuesday that she is increasingly considering requesting a pardon for her father, citing medical reports that the 73-year-old’s health is deteriorating. “There is a medical report that indicates that he is a cancer patient, has severe depression with ups and downs, that in an accident  he hit his [...]

Supreme Court confirms Fujimori’s sentence for corruption

The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal by former President Alberto Fujimori and confirmed the sentence of seven and a half years for a conviction on corruption. The Court also ordered the payment of S/.3 million (just over US$1 m) as civil reparation to the State, which is to be paid by Fujimori and [...]

Fujimori fit to return to prison, tongue growth not life-threatening

A pre-cancerous growth on ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s tongue is not terminal and he can return to his prison cell, according to Pedro Sanchez, a doctor at Lima’s oncology hospital INEN. “He suffers from cancer in the buccal cavity, but doesn’t require hospitalization,” daily La Republica reported Sanchez as saying. Fujimori, 72, was admitted to INEN [...]

Ex-President Fujimori undergoes medical tests on weight loss

Imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori is undergoing medical exams to determine his weight loss, daily El Comercio reported. Fujimori, 72, was admitted to Lima’s oncology hospital INEN to examine a precancerous growth on his tongue, on which he had surgery last year.

Lawmaker: Fujimori pardon by Garcia is feasible

Congressman Jose Vargas of President Alan Garcia’s ruling Aprista party said Tuesday that the head-of-state could pardon jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori due to the latter’s age and declining health, daily El Comercio reported. “I think that because Fujimori is elderly and that, apparently, he has cancer, a pardon is feasible could be considered, for strictly [...]

Humala will look to relocate Alberto Fujimori to different prison

Peru’s next government will look to move ex-President Alberto Fujimori to a regular prison from his cell at the Barbadillo prison at the headquarters of the police’s Special Operations Unit (Diroes), daily La Republica reported. “Diroes is definitely not the appropriate center for a person that has committed this crimes that are so grave,” said [...]

Next Page »