Ex-leader arrives in Peru to face corruption and rights charges
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LIMA - Former president Alberto Fujimori returned to Peru yesterday to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai arrives in court following his arrest and reported beating in custody.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities have detained a  former army major who led a three-day uprising in a southern  Peruvian town and are preparing to storm the police station he  took over with 200 supporters, a government source told Reuters  early on Tuesday.
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The former boss of the Cali drug cartel, who once controlled most of the world's cocaine trade, was sent to the United States on Friday to face trafficking and money laundering charges.
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai arrives in court following his arrest at the weekend.
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The former president of the Organization of American States was returning to Costa Rica on Friday to answer questions about whether he accepted kickbacks, government officials said.
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Bolivia's top court has asked the government to start extradition proceedings against a former president who lives in self-exile in the United States, the attorney general said on Tuesday.
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Peru&#39;s president urged world leaders on Wednesday to pressure Japan to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori to face corruption charges and allegations he authorized death squad massacres a decade ago.
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A federal judge in Miami paved the way for the former Panamanian leader to face money laundering charges.
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Abimael Guzman, the founder of the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla movement in Peru, appeared in public for the first time in 12 years as his retrial on terrorism charges began in Lima before a three-judge panel.
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- In the long struggle to seek justice for victims of human rights abuses committed during 17 years of military rule in Chile, former dictator Augusto Pinochet has repeatedly escaped efforts to prosecute him and bring him to trial. With Pinochet now under house arrest, the country's Supreme Court is said to be ready to announce Monday whether the ailing ex-general will finally be brought to court.
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The 69-year-old founder of Peru&#39;s Maoist Shining Path terrorist movement, which paralyzed the country for more than two decades, faced a civilian court Friday for the first time since he was arrested more than 12 years ago.
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Former premier Benazir Bhutto can return to Pakistan from exile but will have to face corruption cases against her, the government said, as her party prepared to announce her arrival date Friday.
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai arrives in court, cut and bruised, after his weekend arrest.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities arrested a  former army major who led a three-day uprising in a southern  Andean town and vowed on Tuesday to storm the police station  where his followers remained holed up unless they surrendered  soon.
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Alan Garcia, who left the presidency in disgrace 16 years ago after driving Peru's economy into ruin amid a guerrilla war, will have a chance at redemption when he is sworn into a second term Friday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 21 -- The Chilean Supreme Court on Friday ruled that former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori must be extradited back to his homeland to face human rights and corruption charges.