Alberto Fujimori was sent to prison for crimes against humanity. Then Peru’s ex-president was released early because he was seriously ill.
Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori is dead. According to his family, he died on Wednesday at the age of 86 in Peru’s capital Lima from the effects of cancer. “After a long battle with cancer, our father Alberto Fujimori has just passed away to meet the Lord,” his children Keiko, Hiro, Sachie and Kenji Fujimori wrote on the online service X.
Fujimori was released early from prison in December for health reasons, where he had served 16 years for crimes against humanity.
Fujimori ruled Peru with an iron fist from 1990 to 2000. In 2009, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison, partly for massacres committed by death squads in the early 1990s in the fight against the Maoist guerrilla organization Shining Path.
