Peru Court Studies Appeal of Fujimori Verdicts

Peru’s Supreme Court began today to evaluate ex-president Alberto Fujimori’s appeal to annul the verdicts handed down to him earlier this year, for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta murders, and in the corruption and kidnapping trial. Fujimori’s attorney, César Nakasaki, is requesting to annul the 25 year sentence given to Fujimori in April this [...]

Vladimiro Montesinos’ trial for corruption resumes after short suspension

Peru’s former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos’ trial resumed on Monday, about two weeks after it was suspended when some of his co-defendants stopped showing up for trial. Montesinos and four former members of Peru’s National Election Board, or JNE, are currently on trial for corruption and illicit association to commit a felony. The trial was [...]

Ex-President Fujimori sentenced to 25 years on charges of human rights violations

Peru‘s former President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, following a verdict of guilty on four counts of human rights violations. The sentence, announced at 12:10m, was read at the end of the opinion given by the three-judge panel headed by Chief Judge César San Martín. The sentence, and the verdict, are [...]

Fujimori verdict of guilty considered historic in Latin America

Peru‘s former President Alberto Fujimori was found guilty on all charges Tuesday for sanctioning a paramilitary death squad that gunned down 25 people in two notorious massacres during the first two years of his 10-year authoritarian rule. The verdict is considered a paradigm in the hemisphere, since Fujimori is the only democratically-elected Latin American leader [...]

Ex-President Alberto Fujimori found guilty of sanctioning paramilitary death squad

Peru’s ex-President Alberto Fujimori was found guilty on all charges Tuesday for sanctioning a paramilitary death squad that gunned down 25 people in two notorious massacres during the first two years of his 10-year authoritarian rule. Chief Judge César San Martín announced the unanimous verdict by the three judge panel at 9:26 a.m., bringing to [...]

Fujimori says he is innocent of human rights violations, points finger at García and Belaunde Terry

By Annie Thériault Former President Alberto Fujimori took the stand in his own defense Friday, tackling the prosecution’s allegations that he is guilty of sanctioning the Colina Group and of failing to prevent human rights violations committed during his 1990-2000 rule, and pointed fingers at Peru President Alan García and former President Fernando Belaunde Terry. “Where [...]

Low turn-out at Pro-Fujimori rally, trial set to conclude this week

By Annie Thériault In response to thousands of Peruvians taking to the streets of Lima, demanding that former President Alberto Fujimori be severely punished for committing crimes against humanity, about 1,000 people showed up last week for a pro-Fujimori freedom rally in Lima’s Campo de Marte Park.

Jailed former President Alberto Fujimori to personally deliver closing statement next week

Jailed ex President Alberto Fujimori — currently on trial for human rights violations — has been authorized to personally deliver his closing statement next Monday and Wednesday, in what will be the final stretch of a more than year-long marathon trial, reported daily El Comercio. Fujimori, 70, is expected to argue that his government never adopted [...]

Peru court frees two Colina death squad members as imprisonment deadline expires during trial

Peru’s anti-corruption court released two former  Colina death squad members, currently on trial for murder and kidnapping, after the accused completed six years in prison without being convicted because of snail-paced legal proceedings. The ex military officers, Douglas Arteaga and Ángel Pino Díaz, are currently on trial for belonging to the Colina group death squad, [...]

Former third man from the top of the Peruvian army hierarchy says Fujimori is guilty of sanctioning death squad

The former third highest ranking officer in Peru’s army testified yesterday that ex-President Alberto Fujimori is directly to blame for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, carried out by the Colina group paramilitary death squad. “The President of the Republic, in this case the accused, Fujimori, is the one who decides what type of [...]