Judge Juan Carlos Checkley Soria listened to each of the parties during the hearing and Castillo addressed the magistrate and specified that he had not waived his right to political impeachment and that his right to defense had been violated, reported the local media RPP.
Political and social crisis in Peru
Since the dismissal of Pedro Castillo on December 8, Peru is going through a strong social crisis with waves of mass protests already left more than 50 dead.
Castillo was arrested after try to close Congress on the eve of the third political trial against him since the beginning of his management in mid-2021.
Political pretrial is a procedure through which The immunity of senior officials is lifted for the alleged commission of crimes of function. This procedure has the purpose that it is the ordinary justice that establishes the criminal liability of accused officials.
The PJ considered in its decision that Castillo committed the alleged crime of rebellion (break of the constitutional order) in flagrante delicto, so justified the decision of Congress to dispense with the pretrial.
The former head of state demanded to be reinstated as President of Peru and that it be declared null any administrative act executed by Congress and that intends to prevent its restitution.
Source: Ambito
