A Supreme Court judge convicted Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori of abuse of authority and sentenced him to six years in prison.

Peru’s former president Alberto Fujimori faces a possible seven-year sentence today in a separate trial on abuse of authority charges, a day after erupting in anger during one of the hearings.

Seven years after fleeing Peru in disgrace, former President Alberto Fujimori goes on trial today on charges of murder and kidnapping.

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori will go on trial tomorrow on charges of murder and kidnapping during his war against a brutal Maoist insurgency.

Peru’s government apologised for a 1992 university massacre by a military death squad during the “rising dictatorial regime” of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori.

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori must be extradited to Peru to face trial on corruption and human rights charges, Chile’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday in a decision that cannot be appealed.

ALAN Garcia staged a remarkable comeback in Peru’s run-off election, beating a fiery nationalist backed by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to regain control of the country 16 years after his first presidential term ended in economic ruin and rebel violence.

A smiling Alberto Fujimori left prison today in Chile where the former Peruvian president is fighting extradition to his homeland on corruption and human rights charges.

POPULIST Ollanto Humala is leading Peru’s presidential race, with conservative Lourdes Flores and ex-president Alan Garcia competing to qualify for a run-off against the front-runner.

Police in western Japan arrested a woman suspected of stabbing to death two young children who were found dumped on a roadside in a remote farming area.

The Peruvian government was preparing a special session today to review its case against ex-President Alberto Fujimori before formally requesting his extradition from Chile, the government gazette reported.

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori lost a bid for provisional freedom today when a Chilean judge rejected his attorney’s request to set him free while fighting extradition to Peru.

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was arrested in Chile today on charges involving corruption and massacres, as he attempted to return to Peru to run for re-election after five years as a protected exile in Japan.

IN 2001 Galway For Life sought to highlight allegations that the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), an organisation that the Government financially supports, had in the late 1990s been involved in a campaign of compulsory sterilisation of over 100,000 Peruvian women.

Peru’s attorney general has filed homicide charges against disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori, linking him to two massacres by paramilitary death squads in the early 1990s, a statement said.

Alejandro Toledo, Peru's first freely elected president of native Indian descent, has been sworn in.

Alejandro Toledo, an economist with native Indian roots, finished first in Peru’s presidential election yesterday but fell short of a majority and will face a runoff, according to exit polls.