Thread: Former Peruvian President gets 25 years in jail.

See, that's how you do it.

Will Thailand learn from their 'lesser gifted' South American friends?

Thaksin and Suchinda will be shaking in their boots.

Peruvians Set to Protest Against Possible Pardon for Jailed Fujimori

LIMA —
Peruvians prepared for protests on Friday to pressure President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski against pardoning the country's former leader Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for human rights violations.

Kuczynski's promise not to pardon Fujimori during last year's presidential election helped him scrape together a narrow victory against Fujimori's daughter, Keiko Fujimori.

But last month Kuczynski proposed a potential pardon for Fujimori, 78, for health reasons as his finance minister was ousted by Congress, which is dominated by Fujimori's supporters.

"It would be a betrayal. A betrayal of his word and his promise to the families of the victims of the dictatorship," said protest organizer Jorge Rodriguez. Protests are scheduled for cities across Peru and in foreign countries on Friday.

Fujimori has been convicted of leading groups that massacred civilians and kidnapped journalists during his years in office from 1990-2000. Despite his autocratic style, Fujimori still has a solid following among Peruvians who credit him with fixing an economy in crisis and quashing a bloody leftist insurgency.

A May Ipsos poll found that 59 percent of Peruvians back a humanitarian pardon for Fujimori.

In an interview with local broadcaster RPP on Friday, Kuczynski said his decision would be based strictly on a medical review that should be completed by the end of year.

"I'll follow the medical recommendation," Kuczynski said.

But the proposed evaluation, which was not requested by Fujimori, is widely seen as a political gesture.

While pardoning Fujimori might help Kuczynski ease tensions with Congress, it would anger the leftist groups that helped elect him and could define his presidency.

Kuczynski, who took office nearly a year ago to cap a distinguished career in finance and public administration, has vowed to transform Peru into a modern country and is leading regional efforts to pressure Venezuela to enact democratic reforms.

Human Rights Watch said any pardon or politically motivated release of Fujimori would be a setback for the rule of law.

In 2013, former President Ollanta Humala rejected Fujimori's request for a humanitarian pardon after a medical review concluded he was not suffering from a terminal illness.

Fujimori's doctor, Alejandro Aguinaga, said Friday that Kuczynski's committee for presidential pardons has not received any new information about Fujimori's health.

But Aguinaga said Fujimori suffers from various ailments that merit a pardon, including a recurrent growth on his tongue, a hernia in his back and a recent episode of an abnormally fast heart beat.

https://www.voanews.com/a/peruvians-...-/3933695.html

Peru’s president grants medical pardon for jailed Fujimori

LIMA--Peru's president announced Sunday night that he has granted a medical pardon to jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, corruption and the sanctioning of death squads.



President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski released a statement saying he decided to free Fujimori for "humanitarian reasons."

Now 79, Fujimori filed a request for a pardon more than a year ago, citing deteriorating health. He has said on his Twitter account that he suffers from arrhythmia, for which he has been hospitalized several times this year.


Fujimori would have been in prison until age 93 if he had severed his full sentence.


Peruvian law provides that no person convicted of murder or kidnapping can receive a presidential pardon except in the case of a terminal illness.

Three previous requests from Fujimori for pardons since 2013 were rejected after doctors said he did not suffer from incurable illness or severe mental disorder


Fujimori, who governed from 1990 to 2000, is a polarizing figure in Peru. Some Peruvians laud him for defeating the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement, while others loathe him for human rights violations carried out under his government.


His daughter, Keiko Fujimori, narrowly lost Peru's last presidential election to Kuczynski, and her party dominates congress. Her party mounted an attempt to oust Kuczynski over business ties to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, which is at the center of a huge Latin American corruption scandal, but the president survived the impeachment vote late Thursday.

Peru?s president grants medical pardon for jailed Fujimori?The Asahi Shimbun

Daddies girl.

Originally Posted by misskit

Kuczynski

Originally Posted by misskit

Fujimori

With Spanish the official language, wonder why they can't seem to elect someone named Garcia or Fernandez.

Originally Posted by Norton

With Spanish the official language, wonder why they can't seem to elect someone named Garcia or Fernandez.

Interesting historic side notes as to how the ancient Japanese explored and eventually integrated into what are now Peru and Ecuador, long before the barbaric Europeans came calling.

Yes I know about the Japanese. Had no idea the pollocks explored Peru.