House arrest for ex-Peruvian prez Fujimori

One day after Chile’s main prosecutor backed the extradition of Alberto Fujimori to Peru, the Chilean Supreme Court ordered the ex-Peruvian president to be put under house arrest. According to a court statement (via CNN):

“Judge Urbano Marin said he had taken the decision at the request of the Peruvian government.

‘This measure is designed to stop [Fujimori] fleeing,’ the court said in a statement, adding that Chilean police had been told to arrest the former president immediately.”

The sixty-nine-year-old Fujimori has been detained in Chile since 2005 after returning from a self-impose exile in Japan. He has been accused by Peru’s government of several human rights violations and corruption during his time as president between 1990 and 2000.

Sources (English)- Monsters & Critics, CNN, The Latin Americanist, BBC News

Sources (Spanish)- La Tercera

Image- People’s Daily Online (Photo of Alberto Fujimori, circa 2006)