The deposed head of state will be held for another 48 hours while the Supreme Court examines the prosecution’s request
Peru’s Supreme Court has ordered former President Pedro Castillo to remain in pre-trial detention while a hearing is held to analyze the latest request from the prosecutor’s office, which has requested that the deposed ruler be held in preventive detention for 18 months for “rebellion” and ” conspiracy”. ». Magistrate Juan Carlos Checkley indicated that the leftist leader will be held for another 48 hours, despite the fact that this Wednesday expired the seven-day detention period imposed by another judge following his failed self-coup a week ago.
“Enough already! Follow the outrage, humiliation and abuse. Today they are forcing me out again with 18 months in jail. I ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to mediate for my rights and the rights of my Peruvian brothers demanding justice,” Castillo wrote in a signed letter posted on his Twitter account. In the same letter, he also held judges and prosecutors “responsible for what is happening in the country” and sent “millions of thanks” to Peruvians who demonstrated demanding their release and the immediate call for early elections.
The Supreme Court’s decision represents another setback for the former left-wing president after Judge César San Martín decided on Tuesday night “to declare unfounded the appeal filed by the defendant’s defense”, who asked for his release before deadlines seven days after his arrest achieved. The magistrate argued in the ruling that there is a flight risk because Castillo tried to come to the Mexican embassy to seek asylum after being fired by Congress.
It was the ex-president’s handlers who stopped him in his escape attempt, which came after he verified that the speech he had delivered to the nation to order the dissolution of Congress and the establishment of a “government of exception” had not been was effective because neither his ministers nor the armed forces supported him.
The political crisis that erupted last Wednesday has sparked a wave of protests across the country. Given the increasing intensity of the demonstrations, which have claimed the lives of seven demonstrators and injured at least 130 police officers, the new president, Dina Boluarte, has declared a state of emergency in the National Road Network. This consideration will allow the military to take to the streets in an effort to protect strategic points including airports, hydroelectric power stations and other key infrastructure such as highways following the serious incidents that have occurred in the southern cities of the country in recent days. Arequipa. . , second city of the country, Puno and Apurímac.
At the same time, Boluarte this Wednesday proposed holding general elections at the end of next year, four months ahead of the original proposal he made amid the serious political and social crisis affecting Peru. “By making adjustments, this can be brought forward to December 2023, before that date it would not technically, legally, fit; Consequently, good Peruvians, sisters and brothers, must maintain themselves and run within the legal margin, within the Constitution,” the president stressed after the meeting she held on Tuesday evening with the Council of State to discuss the advance of the nomination with the polls. .
Source: La Verdad
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