Pedro Castillo is serving preventive detention in the Barbadillo prison after being arrested for the crime of rebellion. Photo: The Republic | The Republic
Process. He Power of attorney granted an appeal, filed by the defense of former coup president Pedro Castillo, against the resolution that declared unfounded the previous question requested in the investigation against him for the alleged crime of rebellion, which led to Castillo Terrones serving 18 months in prison preventive detention in the Barbadillo prison as a result of the failed coup d’état that he attempted to perpetrate on December 7.
Indeed, it was the Supreme Court of Preparatory Investigation, in charge of the supreme judge Juan Carlos Checkleywhich decided to admit the appeal in favor of Pedro Castillo, who seeks to prevent further investigation for the alleged crimes of rebellion, conspiracy, abuse of authority and serious disturbance of public peace.
According to the networks The Power of Judgmentl, the magistrate “ordered to submit the aforementioned challenge to the Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic for the pertinent purposes.”
Previously, the same Juan Carlos Checkley declared unfounded the previous question raised by the defense of Pedro Castillo, who maintained that there was no process of political impeachment that would allow lifting the presidential immunity to be able to arrest him at the moment in which he was going, together with his family, to the Mexico’s embassy.
Checkley denied the former president’s request, considering that his right to defense would not have been affected, but that “the strict factual assumption that enabled a constitutional accusation procedure under the terms of article 89 of the Regulations of Congress” was not presented.
According to the tax argument, Pedro Castillo He was arrested in flagrante delicto, which would add “to the urgency to prevent him from escaping justice” and that the political impeachment process “is not designed” for the type of crime.
Pedro Castillo: INPE initiated disciplinary proceedings against him
He National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) initiated a new disciplinary process against Pedro Castillo for giving an interview to El Salto de España from the Barbadillo prison.
Likewise, the institution specified that “it has a procedure to authorize interviews of inmates for the media, which has not been requested by said media.”
“He COMMIT has initiated a second disciplinary administrative procedure considering the regulatory framework and the provisions that regulate discipline within penitentiary establishments,” he said on his social networks.