VARIOUS: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH WEB SITE CAMPAIGN IN COLOMBIA ACCUSING FORMER PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

Record ID: 347623

  • Title: VARIOUS: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH WEB SITE CAMPAIGN IN COLOMBIA ACCUSING FORMER PRESIDENT ALBERTO FUJIMORI OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.
  • Date: 4th March 2003
  • Summary: (W8) LIMA, PERU (MARCH 04, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WS: OF NEWS CONFERENCE WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. 0.05 2. CU: OF WEB PAGE. (2 SHOTS) 0.15 3. MV/CU: OF WOMAN SEARCHING WEB PAGE AND ADDING HER NAME TO PETITION. 0.25 4. WS/PAN: OF NEWS CONFERENCE. 0.28 5. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRESIDENT OF PERU'S CHAPTE
  • Embargoed: 19th March 2003 12:00
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  • Location: LIMA, PERU AND TOKYO, JAPAN
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  • Country: Colombia Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVAEGD6BRKDFYI2Y380AW8OMGUZJ
  • Story Text: Peru's chapter of Amnesty International has announced
    their latest efforts to bring former president Alberto
    Fujimori to justice for alleged human rights violations during
    his government.



    Peru's chapter of Amnesty International on Tuesday
    (March 04) launched a Web-based campaign to gather a million
    signatures to pressure Japan to extradite former President
    Alberto Fujimori on human rights charges.

    Foreign Minister Allan Wagner said last week that his
    government will make the official request for Fujimori's
    extradition in June or July on charges of corruption as well
    as for murder charges linked to two massacres by a military
    death squad in the early 1990s. The former leader denies
    wrongdoing.

    Fujimori, who ruled Peru with an iron fist from 1990 to
    2000, fled to Japan in November 2000 amid a corruption scandal
    sparked by a video showing his spy chief, Vladimiro
    Montesinos, handing cash to an opposition politician.

    Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, has taken
    advantage of the protection afforded him as a Japanese
    citizen, a status he earned when his parents registered him
    with the Japanese consulate as an infant.

    Sergio Meza, president of Peru's Amnesty volunteers, said
    Japan is obliged, as a signatory in the late 1990s of a United
    Nations treaty against torture, to hand over or to try in its
    country anyone who commits human rights violations.

    "If Japan does not hand over Fujimori or is not willing to
    carry out an independent trial, it will be violating the
    treaty," he said.

    On the Web page promoting the signature campaign, Amnesty
    lists hundreds of alleged human rights violations committed
    during Fujimori's government like forced disappearances,
    torture and unlawful imprisonment.

    "We think there is a legal basis to ask for the extradition
    ... What remains is for the judiciary to present
    and document well these cases," Carpio added.




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