Peru court grants pardon of ex-President Fujimori

A Peruvian court on Thursday granted the pardon of former President Alberto Fujimori who is serving a 25-year jail term for human rights abuses during his presidency in the 1990s, local media reported.With the court's decision, Fujimori, who was born in Peru to Japanese immigrants, is likely to be released from a detention facility near the capital Lima.The Peruvian government pardoned Fujimori on medical grounds in 2017, but the Supreme Court rescinded the decision the following year at the request of relatives of the victims in the human rights cases.After spending time in a hospital, Fuj…READ FULL ARTICLE