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In this sense, he also explained that they hope for the IACHR not to allow President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) to use the victims’ rights for political negotiations.
Human Rights Watch also believes that “there are serious reasons to believe that his release was the result of a negotiation due to the growing pressure of Fujimori’s adepts in Congress, including the recent trial to submit him to a political trial”, wrote El Nacional.
Alberto Fujimori was serving a 25-year sentence for violation of human rights and last Christmas Eve, PPK granted him a pardon less than halfway through his sentence.
Many protests have taken place since against this decision, some even believing it to be part of a political negotiation with Kuczynski.
HRW’s document was presented to the IACHR to take into consideration when analyzing Fujimori’s release.
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