The former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) was hospitalized this Sunday in a clinic for Lima after suffering a decompensation in the prison where he is serving 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity, official sources reported.
Fujimori presented the “decompensation box” during the dawn Sunday, for which he was transferred to the Social Security hospital in the Ate-Vitarte district, in the east of Lima and close to his prison, detailed the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE).
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in that medical center “could be stabilized” and around 11:00 (16:00 GMT) he was taken “for their respective monitoring” to the Centenario Clinic, in the district of Pueblo Libre, where he is regularly treated for his health problems.
Fujimori, 83 years old, has been hospitalized in recent months on several occasions for presenting heart problems and pulmonary fibrosis, and also suffers from gastritis and lesions on the tongue known as leucoplasiawhich are considered precancerous.
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The former president is serving a sentence handed down in 2009 for the killings of Barrios Altos and La Cantutawhich caused the death of 25 people, in total, as well as the kidnapping of a journalist and a businessman after the “self-coup” of 1992.
On April 8, the Inter-American Court of Human rights (CourtHR) ordered the Peruvian State to refrain from complying with a resolution of the constitutional Court (TC) that restored the pardon granted in December 2017 by the then president Peter Paul Kuczynski (2016-2018).
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After knowing the decision of the international court, the opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, eldest daughter of the former president, assured that she does not lose faith that her father will be released, and described the ruling as “absolutely unfair for a sick and elderly person” to whom it causes “a lot of pain”.
The CorteIDH It also required the State of Peru to present, no later than May 13, a report on compliance with the obligation to investigate, prosecute and punish the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta cases in relation to not executing the sentence handed down by the CT