Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was hospitalized as a precaution this Sunday after suffering in prison a decompensation in his health due to a heart condition that afflicts himprison authorities reported.
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“On Sunday at dawn, the inmate Alberto Fujimori presented a picture of decompensation, being evacuated to the EsSalud Ate Vitarte hospital, where he was able to be stabilized.“, announced the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) through its Twitter account.
Later, the doctors decided that he should be transferred to the Japanese-Peruvian Centenary Clinic, “for his respective monitoring,” added INPE. Fujimori, 83 years old and imprisoned for 15 years, had a drop in blood pressure and began to experience atrial fibrillation at dawn, according to sources close to him.
A similar situation caused him to be hospitalized urgently on March 3 last, when he also suffered a strong arrhythmia in his detention center that raised fears for his life. Eleven days later he was discharged and returned to the police base where he is the only prisoner.
The former Peruvian president (1990-2000) has been serving a 25-year sentence since 2007 for the death of 25 people in two massacres perpetrated by an army command in the framework of the so-called war against terrorism (1980-2000). Of Japanese origin, Fujimori recurrently suffers from respiratory and neurological problems (facial paralysis) and hypertension.
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His new health crisis occurs a week after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered Peru to “refrain from implementing” a ruling from its highest court that restored a 2017 pardon that authorized the release of former President Alberto Fujimori.
AFP
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