Alejandro Toledo requests that his extradition be suspended due to the political crisis in Peru

The ex-president Alejandro Toledo He asked Judge Laurel D. Beeler, of the Court for the Northern District of California, to suspend the extradition proceedings that had been ordered against him so that he could be detained and transferred to Peru so that he could serve his detention. provisional.

The ex-president demanded that the stay be granted until a superior court of UNITED STATESin the Ninth Circuit, resolve his habeas corpus, according to the newspaper La República.

The reason why he requested the suspension of his extradition to the Peru is that they could damage it beyond repair due to the violent protests against Dina Boluarte and the Congress.

This justification has already been used by Toledo to achieve the same objective: to prevent their transfer to Peru. In June 2022, the judge Laurel D. Beeler He requested that his extradition process be suspended for 7 days because the political crisis in Peru would put the former president in danger.

“Conditions are much more dangerous now than a year ago. Since the removal of President Castillo, the country has been in a state of emergency, which has resulted in the suspension of various constitutional rights, including freedom of movement, freedom of assembly and the right to privacy in the home,” said said Toledo. .

In his justification, the former president stresses that in Peru violent, seditious and dangerous conflicts have been observed, which have resulted in violations of human rights; the use of excessive and lethal force against aboriginal people; and the deaths of 48 people in recent protests.

“Indeed, according to a recent study, half of Peruvians say they no longer support democracy,” concluded Alejandro Toledo.

The lawyers of Toledo They also indicate that the US government has not questioned the risk of serious illness or death to which the ex-president exposes himself by imprisoning him.

And judge D. Beeler does not order that the process be suspended until the habeas corpus is resolved, Toledo requested, that a short suspension be granted to use the Ninth Circuit.