\n Peru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori said from his hospital bed Thursday that a return to prison would be a \"death sentence,\" the day after a court revoked a pardon for crimes against humanity.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fujimori, 80, addressed a plea to Peru's President Martin Vizcarra and the South American country's judiciary in a video recorded at his bedside.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Please do not kill me. If I return to prison my heart will not support it. It is too weak to go through the same thing again. Don't sentence me to death. I can give no more.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n A court on Wednesday annulled a presidenial pardon for Fujimori, ending more than nine months of freedom granted under the shock pardon issued by a previous president in December.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, immediately after his re-arrest Fujimori was admitted to a clinic with heart problems.\n<\/p>\n
\n His doctor, Alejandro Aguinaga, told reporters he experienced a drop in blood pressure and an accelerated heart beat -- the same problems for which he has been hospitalized in the past.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"He is already considered a prisoner,\" Interior Minister Mauro Medina told Chile's RPP radio.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"He is expected to leave the clinic to take him to the penitentiary,\" the minister said.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fujimori, a Peruvian of Japanese descent, has been living in Lima but has been hospitalized four times since his release last December.\n<\/p>\n
\n His daughter Keiko Fujimori, leader of the main opposition Popular Force party, decribed the court's decision on Wednesday as \"inhuman\" and \"unjust\".\n<\/p>\n
\n \"Today is the saddest day of our lives. It's painful,\" said Keiko, who is seen by many Peruvians as the heir to Fujimori's political dynasty.\n<\/p>\n
\n - Questionable pardon -\n<\/p>\n
\n Fujimori 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.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fujimori was 12 years into a 25-year jail sentence handed down for ordering two massacres by death squads between 1991 and 1992.\n<\/p>\n
\n He had ruled Peru with an iron fist between 1990 and 2000.\n<\/p>\n
\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.\n<\/p>\n
\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.\n<\/p>\n
\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.\n<\/p>\n
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