SANTIAGO, Nov. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Chile's supreme court approved the detention of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Monday, court officials said.

    Five judges unanimously rejected an appeal, filed by Antonio Marin, to free Fujimori on bail.

    Marin, a Chilean sound engineer whose connection to Fujimori was unclear, argued that the former president had been detained illegally and been prevented from using constitutional safeguards.

    Earlier, the Appeals Court said the preventative arrest of Fujimori, who has been held since Nov. 7 in a military police school in Santiago, was in line with an extradition treaty between Chile and Peru and current court procedures.

    But Fujimori's legal team -- led by Cesar Nakasaki in Peru and Gabriel Zaliasnik in Chile -- has distanced itself from Marin's appeal.

    Earlier this month, Fujimori came to Santiago from Tokyo, intending to begin a campaign to be presidential candidate for the "Si Cumple" (Yes It Fulfills) party in the April 2006 elections inneighboring Peru, where he is wanted for more than 20 charges including kidnapping, torture and murder of opposition activists.

    Fujimori spent nearly five years in Japan after fleeing Peru inlate 2000 as his 10-year-old government collapsed amid a corruption scandal.

    Peru twice tried to extradite him from Japan, but the Japanese government refused the request, saying it would not deport a citizen. Fujimori, son of Japanese immigrants, has dual nationality. Enditem