Fujimori returned to prison after testing negative for coronavirus

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) will return to Lima prison, where he is serving a 25-year prison sentence, after testing negative for covid-19 which was performed after showing low saturation in oxygen. Reported this Saturday his daughter Keiko Fujimori.

“With the negative result of the antigen test yesterday, my father is going back to the Diroes this afternoon”, Keiko pointed out in a post on the social network Twitter in which he referred to the headquarters of the National Police’s Special Operations Directorate (Diroes), where his father is serving a sentence for crimes against humanity.

Keiko said relatives of the 82-year-old former president are also awaiting “the results of all his examinations and the molecular test” to detect covid-19.

HEART CONDITIONS

The former president was taken this Friday from his prison, in the Ate district, to a clinic in Lima after having presented a low oxygen saturation, apparently caused by the various heart diseases from which he suffers, according to his family doctor, the former Congressman Alejandro Aguinaga.

Since he’s been in jail Fujimori is periodically transferred to clinics for various chronic diseases typical of his advanced age., such as high blood pressure, lumbar hernia, gastritis, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, and lesions on the tongue, known as leukoplakia, for which he has been operated on up to six times.

The former president is the only prisoner in a prison built specifically for him within the Diroes police base, where he still has to serve a sentence of twelve years, so that he will not be released until 2033, when he is 95 years old.

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Fujimori was convicted in 2009 as the perpetrator (with control of the facts) of the murders of 25 people, including a minor, in the massacres of Barrios Altos (1991) and La Cantuta (1992), perpetrated by the civilian military group Colina.

Also because of the kidnappings of a businessman and a journalist during the self-coup in 1992, when Parliament was dissolved and the prosecution, justice and the Constitutional Court intervened .

Having been convicted of crimes against humanity, Fujimori does not receive any prison benefits such as parole or the right to an ordinary pardon.

(With information from EFE)

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