LIMA, Peru _ A Peruvian Supreme Court judge on Wednesday ordered the arrest of former President Alberto Fujimori after overturning a pardon that he had received roughly nine months ago.
Judge Hugo Nunez accepted a legal challenge against the pardon, Peru's judiciary said via Twitter.
Former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski approved the 80-year-old's release on Dec. 24 after doctors said he was suffering from a "progressive, degenerative and incurable" illness and that jail endangered his life. Opposition lawmakers accused him of releasing Fujimori to avoid impeachment, a claim which Kuczynski denied.
Fujimori had been serving a 25-year jail sentence for directing two death-squad massacres in 1992.
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