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Supporters of Keiko Fujimori, Peru’s once-powerful conservative opposition leader and two-time presidential candidate, cheered as she walked out of prison late on Friday, after the Constitutional Tribunal approved her release.
Smiling broadly, the daughter of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori left a women’s prison in the Lima district of Chorrillos, where she had been held for over a year while being investigated for alleged corruption.
She was handed a bouquet of roses by her husband, Mark Villanella, who had been on a hunger strike demanding her release.
Fujimori called her 13-month prison stay the “most painful time of my life, so the first thing I want to do now that I am on the street is thank God for giving me the strength to resist”.

She was freed by the Constitutional Tribunal in 4-3 vote earlier this week.
The magistrates noted the decision did not constitute a judgment on her guilt or innocence relating to accusations she accepted money from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. Fujimori could still be returned to a cell.
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Dozens of riot police were present in case of protests by opponents who have called her release another blow for entrenched impunity for the corrupt in the South American country. But most of the people outside the prison were her supporters.
“The Constitutional Tribunal has corrected a great damage done to us in a process filled with abuses and arbitrariness,” Fujimori said.

The 44-year-old, who was jailed last October, faces a radically different political landscape outside prison.
Her conservative Popular Force party held a majority in congress until September, when President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the legislature in a popular move he described as necessary to uproot corruption.
Popular Force will participate in January legislative elections, but Fujimori is not expected to be a candidate and analysts predict that her party to fare poorly.
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As party leader, Fujimori helped to fuel the impeachment of former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for lying about his ties with Odebrecht. But now Fujimori herself has been ensnared by a corruption scandal that has toppled political and businesses leaders around Latin America.
Corruption allegations have hit all of Peru’s presidents between 2001 and 2016.

Prosecutors accuse Fujimori of laundering US$1.2 million provided by Odebrecht for her 2011 and 2016 presidential campaigns. They opened an investigation into the campaigns after seeing a note written by Marcelo Odebrecht, head of the Brazilian mega-company, on his cellphone that said: “Increase Keiko to 500 and pay a visit.”
Fujimori denies the accusations against her and says prosecutors and Peru’s election body have received Popular Force’s accounting books for inspection.
Her jailing capped a striking downfall for a politician who went from first lady at age 19, to powerful opposition leader, to within a hair’s breadth of the presidency.
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Fujimori’s father, a strongman who governed Peru from 1990 to 2000, remains a polarising figure. Some Peruvians praise him for defeating Maoist Shining Path guerillas and resurrecting a devastated economy, while others detest him for human rights violations. He is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses and corruption.
Keiko Fujimori assumed the role of first lady following the traumatic divorce of her father and Susana Higuchi.
She tried to follow in her father’s presidential footsteps and forge a gentler, kinder version of the movement known as “Fujimorismo”.
She finished second in the 2011 election and five years later lost in a razor-thin vote, coming within less than half a percentage point of defeating Kuczynski.


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Keiko Fujimori greets supporters after being released from the Santa Monica prison in Lima on November 29, 2019. Photo: Reuters

FILE - In this July 28, 2000 file photo, Peruvian President Alberto Fuijimori waves as he arrives at Lima's Cathedral for mass accompanied by his daughter, Keiko before his inauguration for a third five-year term, in Lima, Peru. Peru's Constitutional Tribunal on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, narrowly approved a habeas corpus request to free Fujimori from detention while she is investigated for alleged corruption. But the magistrates noted the 4-3 ruling does not constitute a judgment of Fujimori's guilt or innocence with regards to accusations she accepted money from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.(AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)

Keiko Fujimori, right, is embraced by her husband Mark Vito Villanela after she was released from the Chorillos prison in Lima, Peru, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. The Constitutional Tribunal narrowly approved a habeas corpus request to free Fujimori from detention while she is investigated for alleged accusations she accepted money from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Supporters of opposition leader Keiko Fujimori celebrate outside the Santa Mónica women's prison before her release in Lima, Peru, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. The Constitutional Tribunal narrowly approved a habeas corpus request to free Fujimori from detention while she is investigated for alleged accusations she accepted money from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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Magistrates from the Constitutional Tribunal noted the decision to release her did not constitute a judgment on her guilt or innocence relating to corruption allegations



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Popular Peru opposition leader Keiko Fujimori, detained over corruption allegations, leaves jail to cheers from fans

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Magistrates from the Constitutional Tribunal noted the decision to release her did not constitute a judgment on her guilt or innocence relating to corruption allegations