News Flash: Fujimori sentenced to 25 years

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was convicted today of human rights violations and sentenced to 25 years in prison. The judgment by the 3-judge panel is a historical first: never before has a Latin American court found its country's democratically elected president guilty of rights abuses. Fujimori was specifically found guilty of "ordering a military death squad to carry out two massacres that killed 25 people during his 1990-2000 rule." Overall, close to 70,000 people died during two decades of conflict.
(Prior IntLawGrrls posts here, here, and here.)