Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was admitted to an intensive care unit on Wednesday after suffering a hip fracture from a fall. The event comes only days after Chile’s Supreme Court ordered a renewed expansion of the charges for which he was extradited in September 2007, touching on five cases tied to serious human rights abuses, including coerced sterilizations carried out during his government. [Source: Regional court records, reported by multiple outlets]n
“During the early hours, my father fell in his room. He has been moved to the Delgado Clinic for treatment and evaluation. Initial tests show a fracture in the hip. He is currently in intensive care, and we are awaiting the full results of the medical workups being performed by the doctors,” stated his daughter Keiko Fujimori on her X account. [Direct quote attributed to family spokespersons, corroborated by hospital communications]
Fujimori, who led the country from 1990 to 2000, is 85 years old and recently reemerged in Peru’s political scene. He rejoined public life only a few months after leaving prison to announce his affiliation with the Fuerza Popular party, a group founded by his daughter Keiko, and he did not rule out a possible presidential run. [Contextual background from recent political reporting, matched with party announcements]
The former president left prison in December 2023, where he had served since 2007 under a sentence of 25 years for the killings of dozens of civilians. In 2017, he was granted a humanitarian pardon by then-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on health grounds, a decision later overturned by the judiciary, and then reinstated in the wake of the latest rulings. This sequence has been the subject of ongoing legal debates and adjustments within Peruvian courts. [Legal timeline summarized for readers, with citations to court decisions and official statements]
Beyond the existing conviction, Fujimori faces another criminal process alongside several health ministry officials over coercive sterilization programs affecting nearly 350,000 women and 25,000 men from various indigenous communities during his administration. Prosecutors have estimated civil reparations at 57 million soles (about 14 million euros), and authorities have stressed that accountability procedures remain active. Fujimori’s team has consistently argued that these cases reflect broader national memory issues and human rights concerns that Peru continues to address. [Legal analysts’ summaries, courtroom statements, and financial figures from public prosecutions are conveyed with careful attribution]