Pedro Castillo asks the IACHR to hold a face-to-face meeting in the prison where he is being held

MADRID, 22 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The legal team of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo issued a statement late Wednesday asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to hold a face-to-face meeting with the former president in the jail where he is being held.

This was requested in a letter by Castillo's lawyer, Wilfredo Robles, alleging that his client is "arbitrarily deprived of liberty through a judicial process flawed in illegality", all this while the IACHR has begun meetings with local authorities and relatives of the deceased. in protests taking place across the country.

In this sense, Castillo's defense has asserted that on December 20, through the National Human Rights Network, the IACHR was requested to meet with Castillo, a request that the organization's executive secretariat accepted.

"Within the agenda of the technical team of the IACHR, a visit to Mr. Pedro Castillo is scheduled," they responded from the inter-American commission, according to the former president's letter.

However, so far, the IACHR "has not contacted the defense of the president," according to Castillo's legal team, which is why they have asked the agency to specify details of the meeting due to fears that it will not take place. due to possible political pressure.

"I make this situation public, to be alert and not to politicize the visit of the IACHR in favor of the interests of the de facto government," Castillo's lawyer added.

A delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has started a battery of meetings in Peru where it will meet with local authorities, members of social organizations and relatives of people who died in the latest protests.

Pedro Castillo has been incarcerated in the Barbadillo Prison, in Ate, on the outskirts of Lima, since December 17, all of this after the Judiciary ruled 18 months of preventive detention against him.

The Peruvian Justice decreed preventive detention against the ex-president while he is investigated for the alleged commission of crimes of rebellion, conspiracy, abuse of authority and disturbance of public tranquility.