Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski took the bold but highly controversial step on Sunday of granting a pardon to Alberto Fujimori, his authoritarian predecessor who crushed the Shining Path guerrilla group in the 1990s but has spent a decade in jail convicted of corruption and human rights abuses.
Mr Kuczynski said he had taken the decision on medical grounds. A statement from his office said Mr Fujimori, 79, was suffering from “a progressive, degenerative and incurable illness” and that his imprisonment posed a serious risk to his health.
Mr Fujimori was rushed to a clinic in Lima on Saturday and doctors said he would spend Christmas in intensive care. He has been back and forth between jail and hospital several times in recent months.
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