Bolivia's detained former president Anez taken ill in prison
LA PAZ, March 18: The daughter of former Bolivian president Jeanine Anez raised concerns about her mother’s health on Wednesday after authorities confirmed she was taken ill in prison but an ambulance called for her was later sent away.
Peru's former president Alberto Fujimori, who ruled his country with an iron fist and then spent 16 years in prison for crimes against humanity, died on Wednesday at age 86 in the capital Lima.
BRASILIA, Jan. 2: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) was sworn in as president of Brazil for a four-year term on Sunday.
The inauguration of Lula da Silva and his Vice President Geraldo Alckmin took place at 3:00 p.m. local time (1800 GMT) during a plenary
South Korea - Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and some other politicians and former government officials have been pardoned from their prison-sentence.
South Korean President Eun Suk Yeol, using his constitutional right, waived the prison sentence of former President Lee Myung-bak and the officials under &#
Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was set free Friday under a special pardon granted by the incumbent President Moon Jae-in, according to the Yonhap news agency.
Park, who had been imprisoned for 57 months over corruption charges, reportedly received the certificate of pardon at a hospital in Seoul, where she has been treated for over one month due to her chronic shoulder and waist pain.
The 69-year-old, after receiving shoulder surgery in 2019, allegedly planned to get treatment at the hospital until Feb. 2 next year.
A week earlier, the justice ministry announced that Park was included in the list of Moon's special amnesty for the new year.
Park was sentenced to a combined 22-year prison term and had served the sentence since 2017 after being impeached and removed from office over corruption charges.
According to the presidential Blue House, Park's deteriorating health was considered to make the pardon decision.
Park will be protected by the presidential security service, but she will not be subject to other privileges as a former president, including the provision of special pensions and personal secretaries, for her conviction.
SEOUL, Dec. 24: South Korean President Moon Jae-in has decided to pardon former President Park Geun-hye, who has been imprisoned for 57 months over corruption charges, the justice ministry said Friday.
Park was included in the list of Moon's special amnesty granted to 3,094 inmates for the new year.
Park was sentenced to a combined 22-year prison term, and has been serving the sentence since March 2017 after being impeached and removed from office over corruption charges.
Park will be released on Dec. 31 from a hospital in Seoul. The 69-year-old has been hospitalized for a month due to her chronic shoulder and waist pain. She received a shoulder surgery in 2019.
Han Myeong-sook, who served as prime minister from 2006 to 2007 under the liberal Roh Moo-hyun government, is also on the list of Moon's special amnesty.
Han was convicted of bribery in 2015 and completed her two-year prison term in 2017.
Previously, the former prime minister claimed her innocence, saying the charges against her was fabricated as the political revenge by the conservative bloc against the Roh administration.
DECEMBER 1: The highest court in the Maldives on Tuesday overturned the prison sentence of the country's former president Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, who had been convicted of money laundering.
A three-member Supreme Court bench unanimously annulled the five-year jail term and $ 5 million fine slapped on Yameen two years ago by a lower court.
The former leader had recently been moved to house arrest.
The judges said the evidence given at the initial trial had discrepancies and did not conclusively prove that Yameen had laundered $ 1 million in state money for personal gain.
Yameen ruled the Maldives, an Indian ocean archipelago state known as an expensive tourist destination, from 2013 to 2018, before losing a re-election bid to current President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
He was accused of corruption and stifling dissent and the media during his time in office.
TOKYO April 6: Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye, who was impeached last year amid a sensational corruption scandal, was found guilty Friday of charges including bribery, coercion and abuse of power. She was sentenced to 24 years in prison, tantamount to a life sentence for the 66-year-old.
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