In Peru, Former Leader's Lengthy Human Rights Trial Nears End - washingtonpost.com

Fujimori, 70, is still the figurehead of a strong political movement, with 13 seats in the 120-member Congress and support among parts of the population that see his decade-long rule ending in 2000 as a time when Peru defeated the Shining Path insurgency and set the country on a path of economic growth. His daughter, congresswoman Keiko Fujimori, 33, has presidential aspirations of her own and has vowed to set her father free if he is convicted. And some speculate a guilty verdict could set a precedent under which Peru's current president, Alan García, could face prosecution for alleged state abuses during his first administration in the 1980s, when he also fought the Shining Path.

In Peru, Former Leader's Lengthy Human Rights Trial Nears End - washingtonpost.com