The Peruvian Judiciary has ratified on Thursday the 18-month preventive imprisonment ordered against former president Pedro Castillo while he is investigated for the commission of crimes of rebellion, conspiracy, abuse of authority and disturbance of public tranquility.
The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Peruvian Supreme Court will keep the former president in Barbadillo Prison, in Ate, on the outskirts of Lima – where former president Alberto Fujimori is also being held – agreeing with the Peruvian Attorney General’s Office, according to ‘La República’.
«The appeal filed by the defendant José Pedro Castillo Terrones is declared unfounded and the appeal filed by the Supreme Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office is partially founded,» reads the resolution.
In this sense, the Judicial Power ratifies its decision to impose a measure of 18 months of preventive imprisonment against the former president, while he is being investigated for the alleged crimes of rebellion and conspiracy.
Thus, Castillo will serve 18 months of preventive imprisonment despite the attempt of his legal team to release him on parole.
The decision of the Peruvian Judiciary comes one day after the hearing in which the appeal presented by the former president requesting his release was considered.
«I have never committed the crime of rebellion because I never took up arms, nor have I told others to do so. I must say that the one who did take up arms is this tyrannical government that has ended the lives of my 28 Peruvian brothers in Andahuaylas, Ayacucho and other places», said the former president in the hearing, defending his innocence.
Castillo affirmed that he had not committed the crime of conspiracy, accusing «those who, from Congress and other institutions», would have engineered the fall of his government through «successive requests for presidential vacancy and other tricks».
«If my family has had to leave the country and take refuge, it is because in Peru they were in danger, not only their freedom, but also their integrity and their own lives. However, I will stay here to face any process because I have the truth on my side,» Castillo reiterated during his speech.
The preventive detention decreed by the Peruvian Judiciary -and proposed by the Attorney General’s Office- takes place after Castillo announced the dissolution of Congress and the establishment of an emergency government on December 7, events after which he was dismissed by Congress and subsequently detained by Peruvian security forces.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
