:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/MGWEFIXZA5E3NPPNE47XKET6YY.jpg "The judiciary has admitted Pedro Castillo’s appeal to have his prison canceled and investigation for rebellion")
There Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court admitted on Wednesday the appeal filed by the defense of the former president Pedro Castillo to try to overturn, once again, his 18-month pre-trial detention and charges of rebellion and conspiracy, after orchestrating a self-coup in December 2022.
By a “preliminary question”, the former president and his lawyers asked that the guarantee of the political biasand questioned the process of his arrest, the formalization of the preliminary investigation and the subsequent preventive detention.
The document has already been rejected at first instance by the Supreme Court of Preparatory Inquiry, but Castillo appealed on the grounds that the political-legal procedure by which the immunity of high officials for the alleged commission of crimes was lifted did not has not been respected. . In this sense, he requested the cancellation of his vacancy and a preparatory investigation.
Now the Supreme Court headed by Judge Cesar San Martin He will set a date for the public hearing, where parties to the proceedings will present their oral reports, as detailed by the judiciary in a statement.
Development.