Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori releases from Lima’s Barbadillo prison jail after 16 years on humanitarian grounds

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was released from Lima’s Barbadillo prison jail after 16 years on humanitarian grounds. The octogenarian was serving a 25-year jail term for human rights abuses during his decade-long rule from 1990 to 2000. 

The country's highest court ruled to restore a



contentious 2017 pardon, despite criticisms from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the victims’ families. Fujimori was convicted in 2009 of ordering the killing of 25 people in 1991 and 1992, but was given a pardon in December 2017 by former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.