Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year prison term for human rights abuses during his decade-long rule in the 1990s, has been freed after the country’s highest court ...

Alberto Fujimori, the once popular Peruvian president credited with rescuing his country from economic chaos and leftist insurgency but who was later disgraced and sentenced to prison on charges of ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori was released from prison Wednesday on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release.

Alberto Fujimori peers into his laptop computer, quietly plotting a return to power half a world away — all but oblivious to being a wanted man who can't leave the confines of Japan for fear of arrest ...

Peruvians have called Alberto Fujimori plenty of unflattering things during his 10 years in power: a cheat, a human-rights abuser, even a tyrant. One thing they never called him was a slapstick comic- ...

LIMA, Peru – Peru's former spy chief told the ex-wife of disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori that the autocratic leader ordered that she be killed, her spokesman said Saturday. Alberto ...

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 him to ...

Alberto Fujimori was born in Lima on July 28, 1938, to parents who immigrated to Peru from Japan in 1934. His father owned a prosperous tire repair shop in Lima, until it was confiscated by the ...

Reporting from Lima, Peru — Keiko Fujimori appeared to be on her way to a first-round win in Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, exit polls showed, but the race for second place and the right to ...

Peru is a nation divided. As polling day in the second round of this year’s hotly contested presidential elections has edged closer, Peruvians have been forced to choose between two camps. But it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alberto Fujimori, the first man of Japanese heritage to become leader of a Latin American nation, was a university administrator ...