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The Constitutional Court accepts a habeas corpus application for Castillo’s immediate release


The Peruvian judiciary has admitted to processing the habeas corpus petition filed by Pedro Castillo’s lawyer demanding the immediate release of the former president, who is in pre-trial detention for a week on charges of committing the crime of rebellion after the dissolution of Congress was announced and called. The election.

According to the newspaper ‘La República’, Castillo’s lawyer for his release indicates that Castillo was detained “illegally and illegally” for this crime because, he says, there is no evidence that he used weapons, but he was limited to reading Speech.

The Third Constitutional Court of Lima decided to accept the case against the judiciary based on this argument of the alleged violation of Castillo’s individual liberty, Ep reports.

Meanwhile, the new President of Peru, Dina Boloart, announced yesterday, Saturday, that she will form a new government on Saturday after the dismissal and arrest of Castillo, who is accused of attempting a coup, but discontent is growing in the streets, as supporters of the former president are growing. The president is calling for his release and calling for elections, according to Agence France-Presse.

Boulwart did not rule out calling for early elections in search of a peaceful solution to the political crisis, and urged the population to remain calm amid protests demanding a new Congress. Boulwart told the press, after confirming that his government would be formed on Saturday, “If society and the situation require that, we will call for elections in talks with the democratic forces in Congress.”

“I call on the sisters and brothers who went out to protest, to ask them to calm down,” he said after violent clashes between pro-Castillo demonstrators and police Thursday night in Lima.

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Protests and road closures continued

Various and small groups of demonstrators took to the streets on Friday in several cities in Peru, blocking some roads in the south, to protest against the new President of the Republic, Dina Boulwart, and to demand the advancement of general elections.

The protests were particularly concentrated in the southern cities of Ica, Arequipa, Tacna and Cuzco, but there were also movements in Chimbote and Chiclayo, north of Lima, as well as in the Peruvian capital.

Police near a burning barrier during a protest

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The demonstrators are calling for the closure of the Congress that overthrew Castillo, who had previously announced the dissolution of parliament, as well as the advancement of general elections, a year and a half after the last electoral process in the country.

Several inter-provincial carriers have stopped selling tickets to destinations in the south due to picketing by demonstrators who have positioned themselves at the entrance to the cities of Ica and Arequipa, the most important in that region of the country.

The Superintendence of Road Transport of Persons, Goods and Goods (SOTRAN) confirmed that traffic is restricted in three sections of the Panamericana Sur motorway and recommended rescheduling bus departures to Lima and the south of the province to prevent road hazards.

The Office of the Ombudsman demanded that the protests be peaceful and not affect third parties or public property. The police must use force proportionate

The Ombudsman indicated that citizens have the right to peaceful protest, but that cannot be accompanied by actions that violate the rights of others, or affect public property. In this sense, he urged the National Police to exercise its function in accordance with respect for human rights and stressed that the use of force must respect the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality.

For their part, former members of the last cabinet in Peru went to the headquarters of the Public Prosecution Office to respond as witnesses in the investigation that was opened against the ousted former President Castillo, according to Effie. Some former ministers told the press and reiterated that They were unaware Castillo’s decision to shut down Congress, establish an emergency government, and intervene in the judicial system.

A medical-legal team from the Public Prosecutor’s Office went to the headquarters of the National Directorate of Special Operations in Peru to carry out a toxicology examination in Castillo, according to “El Comercio”. The evidence is part of the preliminary investigation against Castillo. This news came after a number of close friends of the politician asked about the state the former president was in at the time of reading the speech in which he dissolved the parliament and called for early elections.

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