FILE PHOTO: People protest outside the prison where Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori is being held, in Lima, Peru December 6, 2023. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File Photo
LIMA (Reuters) - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, serving a 25-year prison term for human rights abuses during his decade-long rule in the 1990s, is awaiting release later on Wednesday after a court restored a contentious 2017 pardon.
The country's highest court on Tuesday ruled in favor of an appeal to restore the pardon for Fujimori, 85, on humanitarian grounds, despite criticisms from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) and victims' families.
