Peru’s former president Fujimori released after controversial pardon
Lima — Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori was wheeled out of a Lima hospital late on Thursday, a free man following a controversial pardon by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. A frail-looking Fujimori held up a hand to wave to supporters as aides rolled him out the main entrance of Lima’s Centenario Clinic in a wheelchair, before he was whisked away in a convoy of vehicles accompanied by his lawmaker son, Kenji. A woman repeatedly shouted, "We love you, we love you!" as she tried to reach Fujimori’s vehicle through a line of security officials. "With my dad," wrote Kenji Fujimori on Twitter, publishing a selfie taken with his father in the back of their SUV. Fujimori looked tired in the photo, while the son, who orchestrated his release, seemed euphoric. Later, he published a video in which both wave to the camera. "They are the first minutes of Alberto Fujimori in freedom," the family’s doctor Alejandro Aguinaga told AFP. He said Fujimori would meet later with his four childre...
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