Lima - The court's decision on the human rights case against former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori for 25 killings and two kidnappings is set to be made public
Tuesday, court president Cesar San Martin said Friday.

Fujimori, 70, who ruled Peru from 1990-2000 before faxing in his resignation from Japan, has stressed that he is innocent and recounted the difficult context in which he
governed the South American country as he combatted an internal terrorist threat.

"I know that I am innocent, and I know I have the majority support of the people," he said Wednesday.

On Friday, the second of two days of his self-defence allegations, he denounced the prosecution for acting out of "personal and political hatred." He charged prosecutors
had managed to gather no evidence that he ordered the killings and kidnappings.

Fujimori - who has both Peruvian and Japanese citizenship - has been held in prison for 18 months, after being extradited from Chile in 2007. Public prosecutors are
requesting a 30-year sentence for the massacres at La Cantuta and Barrios Altos in 1991-92 and for two kidnappings in 1992, perpetrated by a death squadron of military
officers.

The defendant denied the claims against him as "grotesque," "absurd," "crazy" and "in bad faith."

"Beyond the ruling I will be able to sleep calmly, because when Peru asked me, I was indeed up to the challenge," Fujimori said.

Some 100 people - many of them with war-paint on their faces - gathered outside the court building in Lima, to express their support for the former president. (dpa)