Pardon of Alberto Fujimori a return to prison would kill him. Days later, on 11 October 2018, the Congress of Peruwhose members are mainly fujimoristapproved a bill allowing older adults to be released from prison and be placed on electronic monitoring, a move that was seen as benefiting Fujimori. Pardon of Alberto Fujimori On 24 December 2017, the President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, pardoned jailed ex president Alberto Fujimori. Because the pardon was granted on Christmas Eve, it became known as the ""indulto de Navidad"" ("Christmas pardon"). In 2009, Fujimori was convicted of human rights violations and sentenced to 25 years in prison
Alberto Fujimori days left in his term, President Humala said that there was insufficient time to evaluate a second request to pardon Fujimori, leaving the decision to his successor Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. On 24 December 2017, President Kuczynski pardoned him on health grounds. Kuczynski's office stated that the hospitalized 79-year-old Fujimori had a "progressive, degenerative and incurable disease". The pardon kicked off at least two days of protests and led at least three congressmen to resign from Kucyznski's party. A spokesman for Popular Force alleged there was a pact that, in exchange for the pardon, Popular Force members helped Kuczynski fight ongoing