Fujimori backers paint him as victim
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Political allies of Peru's disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori painted him as a victim and appealed for public support on Monday in his legal battle on charges of corruption and human rights abuses.
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MADRID, Sep 6 (IPS) - Representatives of more than 5,000 survivors of the   Chilean dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and the families  of victims  brought a lawsuit Monday against the former  dictator's executor, Oscar  Aitken, in the Spanish capital.
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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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MEXICO CITY -- A special prosecutor is accusing Luis Echeverria, Mexico's former president, of "harming humanity" by allegedly ordering government thugs to kill protesters during a 1971 demonstration, according to case files released to a Mexican freedom of information group.
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The former president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, was put back under house arrest yesterday, a day after a Chilean prosecutor recommended his extradition to face charges of rights abuses and corruption. A judge ordered Fujimori's detention in a response to a request from Peru.
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A Peruvian journalist described on Friday the horror he felt being kidnapped by President Alberto Fujimori's security squad in 1992, hours after the former leader shut down Congress during a war against leftists.
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KATHMANDU - The blockade of the capital declared by Nepal&#39;s Maoist rebels echoes the tactics of Peru&#39;s shadowy Shining Path militants - the ruthless movement upon which they model themselves.
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Youk Chhang, a victim of the Khmer Rouge, is now trying to document how a nation could devour itself with such ferocity.
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Â· Chile to deport former Peru president to stand trial Â· Human rights group celebrates unique victory
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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.
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Peru's disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori says he plans to run for the presidency in 2006, despite being banned.
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TOKYO -- Alberto Fujimori, the disgraced former president of Peru, has decided to run for Japan's upper house of parliament in July, a Japanese broadcaster reported on its website today. "I have accepted the request by the People's New Party to be a proportional representation candidate," Fujimori, who holds Japanese citizenship, was quoted as saying in an interview with the ...
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's wealth is potentially proof he was corrupt, a judge says.
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Peruvian death squad gunmen drank beer and shared birthday cake on the beach after killing 15 people at a neighborhood barbecue, one of them said on Monday at the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori on human rights crimes.
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The political scandal that forced Colombia's foreign minister to quit and put other close allies of President Alvaro Uribe in jail is being driven in large part by a rebel-turned-senator who has defied death threats to become the opposition's most fearless provocateur.
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By Jude Webber LIMA, Peru  - Peru on Monday appointed a top legalofficial to bolster the government's side in terrorism casesafter Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman made a mockery of aretrial last week in a publicity coup for the Marxist group.
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was en route to Peru on Saturday, one day after the Chilean Supreme Court approved his extradition to face five corruption and two human rights abuse charges.