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A Peruvian court on Wednesday annulled ex-president Alberto Fujimori's pardon for crimes against humanity and ordered the 80-year-old's immediate arrest, officials said. The South American country's justice department said in a statement that the Supreme Court had \"issued the arrest and detention orders against former president Fujimori so that he may be re-integrated into the prison establishment.\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He was pardoned last December on humanitarian grounds, but critics said the move was in exchange for Fujimori's son helping then-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski avoid impeachment.<\/p>\n

Fujimori was 12 years into a 25-year jail sentence handed down for ordering two massacres by death squads between 1991 and 1992.<\/p>\n

\"This decision is inhuman, it's unjust,\" said his daughter Keiko, leader of the main opposition Popular Force party and seen by many as the heir to Fujimori's political dynasty.<\/p>\n

\"Today is the saddest day of our lives, it's painful,\" a tearful Keiko told reporters, adding that she had yet to speak to her father since the court decision.<\/p>\n

One of Fujimori's lawyers, Miguel Perez, said on Chile's RPP radio the decision was subject to appeal.<\/p>\n

The pardon, issued by Kuczynski before he was himself brought down by a corruption scandal, triggered a wave of protests by human rights organizations and by victims of Fujimori's crackdown.<\/p>\n

Fujimori, a Peruvian of Japanese descent, has been living in Lima but has been hospitalized four times since his release last December.<\/p>\n

After his arrest Wednesday, he was admitted to a clinic for tests after experiencing a drop in blood pressure and an accelerated heart beat, his doctor, Alejandro Aguinaga, told reporters.<\/p>\n

Health problems<\/h3>\n

Victims of Fujimori's crackdown had petitioned the Inter-American Court to demand a judicial review of the process that led to the pardon.<\/p>\n

Carlos Rivera, a lawyer for the victims, said the decision to annul the pardon was justified.<\/p>\n

\"Kuczynski's pardon to Alberto Fujimori has no legal value and therefore he has to return to prison for irregularities in the process,\" he said.<\/p>\n

Kuczynski had justified the pardon on humanitarian grounds, given Fujimori's well-documented ill-health. But the scandal-tainted president had only days earlier survived an impeachment vote thanks to the abstention of a group of lawmakers led by Fujimori's son Kenji.<\/p>\n

This lead critics to say the pardon was obviously a quid-pro-quo, the price Kuczynski paid for what proved to be a temporary political survival.<\/p>\n

\"International standards in the humanitarian pardon were not met,\" Rivera said.<\/p>\n

Alejandro Aguinaga, Fujimori's doctor, expressed shock at the news. \"We see that in Peru nothing is respected. The pardon of president Fujimori was a constitutional action,\" Aguinaga told Radio RPP.<\/p>\n

Fujimori has had a number of operations as part of a long-running battle with tongue cancer. His most recent hospitalization was in August, for an irregular heartbeat.<\/p>\n

Family feud<\/h3>\n

He has been working on a memoir about his decade in power (1990-2000), a period marked by corruption but also by a fight against guerrillas and terrorism.<\/p>\n

\"I have reached 80 bearing the marks of the years, with all the shocks of political life, the enormous satisfactions and the profound regrets,\" he wrote in a message to AFP around his birthday in July.<\/p>\n

\"In the few years I have left,\" Fujimori explained in his handwritten text, \"I will dedicate myself to three objectives: bringing my family together, improving my health to the extent possible, and striking a serene and balanced equilibrium in my life.\"<\/p>\n

However, Fujimori has been unable to reconcile his daughter Keiko, 43, with her younger brother Kenji, who leads a rival faction of her party, to end a political schism which could see the two face off in the 2021 presidential elections.<\/p>\n

The charge of crimes against humanity stemmed in part from the killings or disappearances of scores of civilians -- allegedly by a shadowy squad of military officers -- during Peru's bloody struggle against Maoist rebels.<\/p>\n

The ex-ruler is revered and despised in equal measure in Peru. Admirers laud him for dragging the country's economy into the modern era and defeating the Shining Path guerrilla movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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