Protests in Peru against Fujimori release order

Hundreds of Peruvians took to the streets of Lima on Saturday to protest against the Constitutional Court's decision to free former president Alberto Fujimori through a pardon. Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison for serious human rights violations, including 25 murders.

The Constitutional Court approved an appeal that revived a controversial humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori, hours before Christmas in 2017 by then president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.

The 2017 pardon was annulled in 2018 by the Supreme Court due to an order from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Latin America's highest human rights court. The former president is expected to be released next week, as soon as the sentence has been published and notified to the judiciary.