Fujimori cleared in sterilization case

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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian prosecutors say they have dropped a criminal investigation against former President Alberto Fujimori and health ministers who served under him over a 1990s mass sterilization program under which thousands of women say they were forcibly sterilized.

The probe had been re-opened in 2011 under pressure from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

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