Peru Court Rules Former President Fujimori Must Remain in Jail

A Peruvian court ruled that former president Alberto Fujimori will remain incarcerated, challenging a decision from the country’s Constitutional Court that called for his release.

Judge Fernando Vicente Fernandez Tapia, in charge of the First Court of Preparatory Investigation, ordered not to execute a prior decision to release the former president, imprisoned for death squad killings, El Comercio reported on Friday.

Peru’s Constitutional Court challenged this week an international court over the potential release. The former president was pardoned in 2017, but was sent back to jail, where he has remained partly due to the intervention of the Inter-American Court ...