The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Peru has rejected on Tuesday the appeal filed by former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to annul his provisional detention for a period of seven days in the framework of the investigation against him for the alleged crime of rebellion after unsuccessfully attempting to dissolve the Congress.
Thus, former president Castillo will have to serve the week of detention imposed by Judge Juan Carlos Checkley and also demanded by the Andean nation’s Public Prosecutor’s Office, as reported by the local radio station RPP.
Castillo has been in preventive detention since last Wednesday, December 7, when he was arrested by his own security team shortly after addressing the nation to announce the dissolution of Congress, the establishment of an emergency government and the calling of legislative elections with which he could then launch a new constitutional process.
Castillo’s maneuver, of which former Prime Ministers Anibal Torres and Betssy Chavez were allegedly aware, was quickly intercepted by the Congress of the Republic, which passed a motion of censure against him.
Since then, protests against his detention and in favor of closing a Congress that from the first day has maneuvered to remove him from office have followed one after the other, with a balance of seven deaths and a hundred injured between police and demonstrators. The new government of Dina Boluarte has called for dialogue and has convened a crisis cabinet to deal with the crisis.
