The octogenarian former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori returned to prison in Lima on Monday after receiving medical discharge, after 11 days in a clinic due to heart problems, his daughter Keiko Fujimori reported.
“My father was discharged today (Monday) at the Centenario Clinic to continue his treatment at the Barbadillo prison. On the day he was taken to the El Golf Clinic to analyze the progress of his pulmonary fibrosis,” his daughter said on Twitter.
“He will remain under strict medical observation of his two main ailments: fibrosis and atrial fibrillation. I thank, on behalf of my brothers, for their concern and we ask for their prayers for their speedy recovery,” added the leader of the opposition Popular Force party.
Fujimori, 83, was hospitalized in emergency on March 3, after suffering a heart attack at the police base where he has been serving a 25-year prison sentence for the death of 25 people in two massacres since 2007.
Both massacres were perpetrated by a death squad of the Peruvian army in alleged counter-terrorism operations during his administration (1990-2000).
Of Japanese origin, Fujimori decompensated on March 3 and was taken to the nearest health center by ambulance, fearing for his life, according to his relatives. He was then transferred to the intermediate care unit of a private clinic.
President Pedro Castillo's chief of staff, Aníbal Torres, said a day later that “former President Fujimori is properly cared for” like the rest of the inmates. However, he reiterated the possibility of transferring him to a common prison “when he is healed” to end what he described as a “golden prison”.
Fujimori has recurrent respiratory and neurological problems (facial paralysis) and hypertension.
Her firstborn and political heiress claimed last October that government announcements to transfer her father to a common prison, as part of a policy of ending the privileged treatment of some prisoners in “golden prisons”, influenced the deterioration of her parent's health.
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