Peru courts sentence Fujimori to six years of jail

Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori attends his trial at the Special Police Headquarters in Lima, Dec. 10, 2007. Fujimori is standing before justices of the Andean country's Supreme Court to face charges that he violated human rights during his 1990-2000 rule. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

LIMA, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- A Peruvian court sentenced on Tuesday Alberto Fujimori, the nation's president from 1990 to 2000, to six years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of 400,000 new soles (around 132,000 U.S. dollars) to the state.

The court also barred him from standing for any kind of political office for two years.

Pedro Urbina, a spokesman for the Supreme Courts of Justice, read the sentence saying that it had been handed down for breaking into the homes belonging to his ex-wife and to Vladimiro Montesinos, his former advisor who also headed the National Intelligence Service (SIN).

Fujimori consulted with his lawyer, Cesar Nakazaki, and then said that he would present a partial appeal: contesting the jail sentence and the fine. The nation's prosecutor in chief said that he would set aside his right to appeal.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei