Peru's Humala backs minister despite murder probe

LIMA, Peru (AP) — President Ollanta Humala on Thursday backed his newly named interior minister after revelations the former army general has been formally accused in the 1988 murder of a journalist while a young intelligence officer.

“The lawyers indicate that what we have here is a strange case. We don’t see that he’s guilty,” Humala, also a former army officer, told reporters at Peru’s presidential palace. “We believe in the presumption of innocence.”