Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori has been taken to a local clinic due to oxygen saturation issues, according to local media reports quoting his lawyer. 

Fujimori, 83, is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations.

He was convicted of ordering the slayings of anti-government activists in 1991 and 1992.

(Cover: File photo of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori in Lima, April 7, 2009. /Reuters)