14:23, 20-Feb-2018
Fujimori Court Ruling: Former president could face another human rights trial
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Peru's former leader Alberto Fujimori could face another trial, after the country's National Criminal Court ruled that a previously given pardon, does not excuse him from future trials.
The former president received a pardon on his 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in late December. The ruling establishes that Fujimori will be open to trials involving the death of six people killed by a paramilitary group, in the town of Pativilca in 1992. A spokeswoman for the government's judicial authority said Fujimori can appeal the ruling.