Images of the sick former leader outside a Lima prison and court paperwork indicate that Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, was freed from prison on Wednesday, ahead of the conclusion of his term for approving the deployment of a death squad in his nation. As a humanitarian gesture, then-Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski granted Fujimori a medical pardon in 2017, which was reinstated by the Constitutional Court of Peru on Tuesday. But a year later, the nation’s Supreme Court revoked the pardon, and Fujimori was sent back to prison. Fujimori, a very controversial figure both before and after his hard-line reign from 1990 to 2000—he resigned in 2000 amid a bribery scandal—was the son of Japanese immigrants.