U.N. human rights experts appalled by pardon of Peru's Fujimori

[Judi Lynn]

DECEMBER 28, 2017 / 8:50 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Reuters Staff

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GENEVA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s pardon of his predecessor Alberto Fujimori is an appalling “slap in the face” for his victims and a major setback for the rule of law, a group of U.N. human rights experts said on Thursday.

”A humanitarian pardon has been granted to someone convicted of serious crimes after a fair trial, whose guilt is not in question and who does not meet the legal requirements for a pardon,” they said in a statement.

Kuczynski pardoned the ailing Fujimori three days after Fujimori loyalists in the opposition-ruled Congress saved Kuczynski from being ousted in a corruption scandal.

“We are appalled by this decision. It is a slap in the face for the victims and witnesses whose tireless commitment brought him to justice,” said the statement, issued jointly by the U.N. working group on enforced disappearances and by U.N. special rapporteurs Agnès Callamard and Pablo de Greiff.

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[nycbos]

1. Any organization that puts Saudi Arabia on a "human rights" panel has very little credibility.

For the record I am not commenting on weather Fujimori deserved to be pardoned. Just that the UN doesn't have much credibility of "human rights" when it puts one of the worlds worst human rights abusers on it's human rights body.