Protests against President Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Speaker of the House of Representatives Alberto Fujimori M. Lima, La Peru 25/12/2017 -
REUTERS/Guadalupe Prado
CAIRO – 26 December 2017: Thousands of Peruvian citizens demonstrated on Monday after the decision to pardon former President Alberto Fujimori, BBC reported.
Peruvian police fired tear gas at dozens of demonstrators who were holding photographs of the victims of anti-insurgency security campaigns.
Alberto Fujimori, the 79-year-old former president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, accused of human rights abuses and corruption, is serving a 25-year sentence.
After Fujimori's health deteriorated, and doctors confirmed that the former president was suffering from an untreatable disease, President Kuchinsky issued a decision to pardon Fujimori and seven others.
Supporters of the former president celebrated outside the city hospital where he was being treated.
He is both hated and loved in Peru; he is admired by some Peruvians for combating Maoist rebels and criticised by others for being a corrupt dictator.
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