Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, was given a 25-year prison sentence in Lima on Tuesday after being found guilty on human rights charges related to killings and kidnappings carried out by a state death squad.

Guilty: Alberto Fujimori, the former president of Peru, takes notes in a Lima court, where he was given a 25-year prison sentence

A three-judge panel convicted him of ordering a military squad to carry out two massacres that killed 25 people during his 1990-2000 rule, when he was fighting Maoist guerrillas.