Judge Littman Ramírez rejected the Prosecutor’s request to impose house arrest against the pardoned former president Alberto Fujimori, who faces trial for the Pativilca case.
«The Temporary Liquidator Supraprovincial Criminal Court declared unfounded the fiscal requirement to vary the simple appearance mandate for house arrest of Alberto Fujimori. Instead, he was banned from leaving the country for nine months,” the statement said.
Fujimori’s former advisor, Vladimiro Montesinos, was sentenced to 19 years and 8 months in prison for the Pativilca and La Cantuta cases. As the sentence is considered served, given that he has been imprisoned since 2001, Montesinos is scheduled to be released in June 2026.
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At the last appearance variation hearing, on Tuesday, January 30, Fujimori criticized the prosecutor’s request and indicated that he may “die suddenly.” «I have chronic interstitial lung disease, it is a disease within the fibrosis group. “I must walk half an hour a day to prevent the disease from advancing,” argued the former president (1990-2000).
Fujimori, sentenced in 2009 to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity, was released on December 6, 2023 by order of the Constitutional Court in accordance with a pardon due to his delicate state of health.
The former president has been investigated for the massacres of Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, for which Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2009. But now the so-called Pativilca massacre, the brutal kidnapping and murder of six peasants in 1992, has the former Peruvian President on the ropes, despite the pardon granted in December by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski that allowed his release.
These three massacres were perpetrated by the Colina Group, a clandestine paramilitary arm that systematically violated human rights during the Fujimori era.
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