Alberto Fujimori, who was president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity. He has been in prison since 2007 and among the crimes for which ...

He was Peru's president, and its most prominent prisoner. He was convicted, pardoned and sent back to prison. Alberto Fujimori was unscrupulous, corrupt and popular — but he was not a typical ...

But Fujimori’s government took an authoritarian turn in 1992, when he ordered the military to shut down Peru’s congress and its supreme court and declared a state of emergency.

Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru's economy and defeating a brutal insurgency ...

Alberto Fujimori, who is two weeks away from turning 86, announced in May that he suffered from a malignant tongue tumor. He ruled Peru with an iron fist between 1990 and 2000, leading to the ...

Peru’s forced sterilisation policy could constitute a crime against humanity, a United Nations committee has said. More than ...

Police in Peru have fired tear gas and clashed with thousands of protesters angry at the authorities' decision to pardon ex-President Alberto Fujimori. "No to the pardon!" chanted crowds in the ...

Fujimori helped trailblaze the right-wing populist playbook that Donald Trump now uses. The former Peruvian president exemplified a mortal threat to democratic regimes: an elected leader who ...

LIMA--Alberto Fujimori, whose decade-long presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in a disgrace of autocratic excess that later sent ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Controversial former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was buried Saturday after three days of national mourning in which thousands of supporters lined up outside a museum in ...

Credit - Najlah Feanny—Corbis via Getty Images Few newspapers in the U.S. covered in depth the passing of Alberto Fujimori — President of Peru from 1990-2000 — on Sept. 11. The story got ...

Few newspapers in the U.S. covered in depth the passing of Alberto Fujimori — President of Peru from 1990-2000 — on Sept. 11. The story got buried beneath an avalanche of headlines ...