Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s divisive former president, released from jail

The 85-year-old was pictured leaving prison in Lima where he was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses

Peruvian former president Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year prison term for human rights abuses committed during his decade-long rule in the 1990s, has been released after a court restored a contentious 2017 pardon.

Local TV showed him leaving prison on the outskirts of Lima and getting into a car on Wednesday evening while a crowd of supporters and journalists pushed against the car carrying the ex-president as it tried to leave the premises.