Peru upholds prison sentence for former President.

The AFP has reported that Peru's Supreme Court has upheld the 6 year prison sentence for former President Fujimori. The charge is for ordering an illegal entry into a private home. Fujimori is also on trial for human rights abuses.

Besides the six-year prison sentence, the Supreme Court also upheld a 135,000-dollar fine against Fujimori for civil rights violations during the home invasion. He is also barred from holding public office for two years.

Tuesday's high court ruling was welcomed by prosectors in the death-squad killings case, because it "demolishes" Fujimori's lawyers' argument that, while in power, he had no authority over active-duty military officers.

"Fujimori gave an order to a lieutenant colonel to have him impersonate a prosecutor in an illegal operation aimed at recovering some videos implicating him in corruption," said prosecutor Avelino Guillen.

Prosecutors are trying to prove Fujimori was part of the chain of command that ordered atrocities during his rule, including two massacres blamed on an army hit squad known as the Colina Group.

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