Former President of Peru Alberto Fujimori released from prison this Wednesday in compliance with a ruling of the Constitutional Court, despite the fact that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IDC) asked the authorities of the Andean country to refrain from doing so.

Fujimori left the Barbadillo prison in eastern Lima a day after it was reported that the TC had ordered the “immediate release of those chosen,” reinstating the pardon granted to him in 2017 by then-President Pedro Pablo. Kuchinsky. .

Fujimori was held at the Barbadillo Penitentiary Center, where he is serving a prison sentence. 25 years for crimes against humanity.

In addition to being sentenced to 25 years in prison for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres, Fujimori faces another criminal trial along with several of his health ministers for forced sterilization of almost 350 thousand women and 25 thousand men various indigenous communities during his reign.

The former Peruvian president, citing his 85 years of age and poor health, argues that he should serve the remainder of his sentence outside prison.

His pardon has shocked the country, with his detractors seeing him as a dictator and his supporters as a hero, and the families of the massacre victims demanding justice. (EFE and Reuters)