LIMA (AFP) -– A verdict in the long-running human rights abuse trial of Alberto Fujimori was set for April 7, as Peru’s former president on Friday claimed prosecutors had provided no evidence against him.

Fujimori is accused of ordering two massacres that killed 25 people and designing a “dirty war” strategy to combat leftist insurgents including the Maoist Shining Path group and the Tupac Amaru guerrilla movement during his 1990-2000 presidency.
If convicted, the 70-year-old faces up to 30 years in prison.
Judge Cesar San Martin, who has overseen 160 court sessions in the 15-month trial, announced the sentencing date and said that a fair judgment would be made.
“No one has pressured us and we won’t allow anyone to do so,” San Martin said. “We’ll give the sentence we believe is fair.”
Fujimori said earlier that prosecutors had not submitted any evidence that proved his guilt on human rights abuse charges.
In the second and final day of his defense ahead of a verdict, Fujimori said prosecutors may have mounted a detailed legal campaign against him but insisted the evidence “does not show any sign of my involvement in these events.”
Fujimori’s eldest daughter Keiko, who is a member of congress, on Friday expressed concern about the one-day sentencing next Tuesday.
“They’ll debate what it took years to elucidate in only one day? I’m worried,” the 34-year-old said.
“I hope it won’t be the announcement of a sentence already prepared against him.”
The case against Fujimori focuses on the November 1991 massacre in the neighborhood of Barrios Altos, in which 15 people were killed, and the July 1992 shooting at La Cantuta University, in which 10 people were killed. A hit squad of Peruvian soldiers carried out the killings.
Now in poor health, Fujimori is already serving a six-year prison term for abuse of power in an unrelated case.
Fujimori is the first democratically elected president in Latin America to be brought to trial for alleged human rights violations.
The former president fled to Tokyo in 2000 amid a deepening corruption scandal and resigned the presidency by fax from his hotel.
Peru endured a brutal war against Maoist rebels in which up to 69,000 people were killed in the 1980s and 1990s. Investigators have blamed the rebels for many of the killings, but the military has also been implicated.