Alberto Fujimori, Peru’s divisive former president, released from jail

The 85-year-old was pictured leaving prison in Lima where he was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses

Alberto Fujimori, Peru's former strongman leader, was freed from jail after a ruling from the country's highest court granted him a humanitarian pardon, despite a request from the regional Inter-American Court of Human Rights to delay his release.

Looking frail and wearing a face mask, the 85-year-old was received by his lawyer, two of his children Kenji and Keiko Fujimori - his political heiress and three-time presidential candidate - and helped into a waiting vehicle amid cheers from his supporters, who waved banners, honked horns and chanted Fujimori Libertad", or Fujimori freedom".