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Weekly Report - 07 December 2023 (WR-23-49)
PERU: Fujimori released
Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) walked free from prison on 6 December. Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2009 for human rights abuses and corruption. The baleful legacy of Fujimori’s decade-long authoritarian kleptocracy which, beyond crimes against humanity and corruption, hollowed out democratic institutions and left a collapsed party system, remains very much alive in Peru. There were echoes of his co-optation of the judiciary in the manner of his release by the constitutional tribunal (TC) in contravention of international law, although it is the right-wing dominated congress calling the shots now.
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