Pardon of Alberto 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 for his role in killings and kidnappings by the Grupo Colina death squad during his government's battle against Shining Path leftist guerrillas in the 1990s. The verdict marked the first time that an elected head of state has been extradited to his home country, tried,
Alberto Fujimori that "[i]n no other country in Latin America did a president have so much control over the armed forces". A 2002 report by Health Minister later suggested that Fujimori was involved in the forced sterilizations of up to 300,000 indigenous women between 1996 and 2000, as part of a population control program. A 2004 World Bank publication said that in this period Montesinos' abuse of the power Fujimori granted him "led to a steady and systematic undermining of the rule of law". The 1993 constitution limited a presidency to two terms. Shortly after Fujimori began his second term, his supporters