(FILES) portrait taken on November 13, 1996 shows Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori during his meeting with japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in tokyo. Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who was released from prison on December 2023 under a humanitarian pardon, died on September 11, 2024, at the age of 86 at his home in Lima, where he was recovering from radiotherapy treatment for cancer, his family said. (Credit: AFP)
Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori, who spent 16 years in prison for crimes against humanity, died on Wednesday at the age of 86 in the capital Lima, his family said.
"After a long battle with cancer, our father, Alberto Fujimori, has just departed to meet the Lord," his children Keiko, Hiro, Sachie and Kenji Fujimori wrote on the social media platform X.
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