Chile Releases Former Peruvian President

[Judi Lynn]

Chile Releases Former Peruvian President
By EDUARDO GALLARDO, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, May 18, 2006

(05-18) 12:29 PDT SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) --

A Chilean Supreme Court panel freed former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on bail Thursday while he fights extradition on corruption and human rights charges.

The justices voted 4-1 to allow the former authoritarian leader to go free, but they prohibited him from leaving Chile, said the president of the court panel, Enrique Curi.

Fujimori arrived in Chile in November from Tokyo, saying he was ending five years of exile in Japan in order to run in Peru's presidential elections.
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Peru so far has filed 12 formal charges against Fujimori, including sanctioning a paramilitary death squad accused of murdering 25 people, illegal phone tapping, diverting public funds to the intelligence service, bribing legislators and transferring $15 million to his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.
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[al bupp]

1. Truly bizarre

How can one attempt run in a couty's presidential election while fighting extradition for facing charges in that same country?!

Un-effing-believable.