Peru's Constitutional Court ordered the release of ex-president Alberto Fujimori, 85, serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity and corruption, according to a court document published on Tuesday.
A court ruling ordered the immediate release of Fujimori, who was president from 1990 to 2000 and jailed since 2009 over massacres committed by army death squads in 1991 and 1992 in which 25 people were killed in supposed anti-terrorist operations.
The former president, who was in power through the 1990s, received a presidential pardon in 2017, but pressure from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) repeatedly snarled his attempts to regain freedom.
The court ruled Fujimori's immediate release from the detention centre where he is being held.
Fujimori was convicted of ordering the massacre of 25 people in 1991 and 1992 while his government was fighting against the Marxist-leaning Shining Path guerrillas.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP & Reuters)
