Christmas Eve pardon enrages critics,who say president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has ‘bartered his political survival for the dictator’s freedom’Peru’s president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has pardoned the jailed former autocrat Alberto Fujimori in a Christmas Eve announcement that has sparked protests across the country.
The president, who final week survived a vote to force him out of office, or said in a statement on Sunday night that he had “decided to concede a humanitarian pardon to Mr Alberto Fujimori”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk