Peru's jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori has been pardoned on humanitarian grounds. Fujimori was serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and rights abuses. <br/><br/>The President of the republic granted a humanitarian pardon to Mr Alberto Fujimori and seven other people in similar condition. The Presidency said in a statement that Fujimori suffering from low blood pressure and an irregular heartbeat was transferred from his cell to a clinic on Saturday. <br/><br/>The 79-year-old had a sudden drop of pressure with marked arrhythmia, doctors said. He is making adequate progress in the intensive care unit, said his physician Alejandro Aguinaga. He will remain hospitalized for as long as necessary, until he has stabilized.<br/><br/>Fujimori, in office from 1990 to 2000 and imprisoned since 2005, was admitted amid rumors that he could be pardoned this Christmas. Speculation about a pardon arose after his lawmaker son Kenji broke ranks with the ex-president's daughter Keiko, who leads the Peruvian opposition and was pushing last week to impeach President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.<br/><br/>Despite his conviction for human rights abuses, Fujimori retains a level of popularity in Peru for having defeated the Marxist guerillas of The Shining Path and for stabilizing the economy after a period of crisis.