La Segunda Sala Penal de Peru on Wednesday ordered the release of former Peruvian presidential candidate and opposition party leader Keiko Fujimori, following her arrest last week in an ongoing money laundering investigation. Keiko Fujimori is the daughter of former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori. She is still under investigation over undeclared contributions made to her [...]
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A judge on Peru’s highest court overturned a pardon of Peru’s former president, Alberto Fujimori on Wednesday. Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2009 for approving a civilian massacre during his presidency. Former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori in 2017 due to Fujimori’s heart condition. However, human rights experts denounced the pardon, claiming that it was politically motivated and that Fujimori [...]
Peru Congress approves second impeachment trial against president
Peru's Congress voted by a wide margin on Thursday to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for a second time in three months. Congress voted 87-15 in...
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A UN committee found Friday that the UK is breaching the rights of women in Northern Ireland by restricting their access to abortions. Brazil's Supreme Federal Court...
Peru ex-president Fujimori to face trial for 1992 killings of six farmers
Peru's National Criminal Court Court B on Monday ruled that former president Alberto Fujimori must stand trial for the killings of six farmers in 1992 notwithstanding the medical pardon...
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A group of UN human rights experts denounced on Thursday the grant of pardon to former Peru President Alberto Fujimori, calling it a "'slap in the face' to victims...
UN human rights experts denounce pardon of former Peru President
A group of UN human rights experts denounced on Thursday the grant of pardon to former Peru President Alberto Fujimori, calling it a "'slap in the face' to victims of human rights abuses." According to the experts The...
Former Peru President Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by President Pedro Pablo Kuzynski on Sunday after serving almost half of a 25-year prison sentence for human rights abuses and corruption committed during his authoritarian regime in the 1990s. Fijumori,...
The Peru Congress on Monday unanimously voted to remove the Comptroller, Edgar Alarcon, from office. The vote to remove Alarcon was initiated over accusations that he gave public funds to the mother of his...
Peruvian Judge Richard Concepcion on Thursday ordered the arrest of former president Alejandro Toledo for his alleged involvement with a bribery scandal involving the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht SA . Concepcion ordered Toledo to spend...