At the hearing, the defense of the former president, Wilfredo Robles, stated that the arguments of the Prosecutor’s Office are “disproportionate” and that they lack specificity and defended that he leave prison and continue the investigations against him with a measure of appearance with restrictions. .
The Peruvian ex-president Pedro Castillo He said this Wednesday that his preventive detention is unfair, “political revenge” and asked for his freedom.
This occurred during the appeal hearing that requested his defense against the judicial resolution that ordered 18 months of arrest for trying to dissolve Congress and rule by decree.
“I ask that you reflect and see how this unjust preventive detention that has been imposed on me has only served to polarize our country,” he said.
“Everything that is done against me and this whole process is nothing more than political revenge,” Castillo said from prison when he intervened remotely in the hearing.
The former president has been under arrest since April 7, when he was arrested after announcing the dissolution of Congress in a speech.
Along with this, he is accused of intervening in the Judiciary and calling a constituent assembly. It is about something that has been interpreted mainly as a failed coup attempt.
Case against Pedro Castillo
Supreme Judge Juan Carlos Checkley issued preventive detention against Castillo on December 15.
This, after noting that he had found “founded elements of conviction” of the alleged commission of the crimes of rebellion, conspiracy, abuse of authority and serious disturbance of public tranquility.
This Wednesday, the former president stated that he has “never” committed a crime of rebellion, that he has not taken up arms and that he has not called anyone to take up arms either.
“But I must say that the one who rose up in arms to end the lives of more than 30 Peruvians is the current government,” he said regarding the 28 victims who have died in protests that have taken place in the country in recent weeks.
In these protests, which timidly began on December 7 and spread to different parts of the country on December 11, the protesters have different claims.
These include his release, the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the advancement of general elections and the calling of a constituent assembly.
Castillo asked that the hatred cease and requested his freedom because it is “a just right.”
I have never committed the crime of rebellion because I have never taken up arms, nor have I told others to do so. I must say that the one who did rise up in arms is this tyrannical government that has killed my 28 Peruvian brothers in Andahuaylas, Ayacucho and other places. (1/7) pic.twitter.com/5v34dd2hOx
— Pedro Castillo Terrones (@PedroCastilloTe) December 28, 2022
Allegation
He also said that to date he is incommunicado and that he has not had telephone access to call his family and requested that he be given the opportunity to speak with his parents and family.
The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Peru reviews this Wednesday the appeal filed by Castillo against the judicial resolution that ordered 18 months of preventive detention issued against him.