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Dan Collyns in Lima

International court urges Peru not to release ex-president Fujimori from jail

Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori listens to a question during his testimony in a courtroom in Callao, Peru, on 15 March 2018.
Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori listens to a question during his testimony in a courtroom in Callao, Peru, on 15 March 2018. Photograph: Martín Mejía/AP

Peru risks being ranked alongside authoritarian states like Venezuela and Nicaragua, lawyers have warned, if it flouts international law by freeing former president Alberto Fujimori from jail after its highest court ordered his “immediate release”.

In the latest chapter of a drawn-out legal saga, Peru’s constitutional court ruled on Tuesday to free the former authoritarian leader who, since 2009, has been serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and ordering massacres committed by an army death squad in the early 1990s.

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