Human Rights
Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 00:00
A day after a court imposed a 25-year sentence on former President Alberto Fujimori in death squad killings, his daughter predicted Wednesday that the ruling would backfire as she launched a "national crusade" to clear his name
Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 00:00
But with such a large army presence, complaints of human rights abuses are growing and there are signs that ruthless drug hitmen driven out of the city are taking their turf wars further south in Mexico, stretching President Felipe Calderon's nationwide a
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
Una serie de documentos de inteligencia estadounidenses desclasificados, utilizados durante el juicio al ex presidente peruano Alberto Fujimori, fueron publicados este martes por la organizacion no gubernamental Archivo de Seguridad Nacional
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
A special court in Lima tried and convicted the former president for his role in crimes committed by an army death squad during his 1990-2000 rule
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
The court was packed with observers and the families of people killed by the Colina paramilitary group
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
A three-judge panel of Peru’s Supreme Court on Tuesday convicted former President Alberto K. Fujimori of human rights abuses and sentenced him to 25 years in prison
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
n his first term in the 1980s, Garcia, frustrated that the brutal Shining Path insurgency had taken over El Fronton prison, told the navy to attack it
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
He's the first democratically elected Latin American leader found guilty in his own country of human rights abuses. But supporters are expected to protest
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
Judge Cesar San Martin concluded there was "no question" that Fujimori had sanctioned the killings during massacres in 1991 and '92 as well as the '92 kidnappings of journalist Gustavo Goritti and businessman Samuel Dyer
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 00:00
Key dates in former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's rise, fall and trial for murder and kidnapping