Gustavo Petro asks the IACHR for precautionary protection measures for Pedro Castillo

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Thursday for precautionary measures for the ousted president of Peru Pedro Castillo.

“I request the IACHR apply the American Convention on Human Rights and issue precautionary measures in favor of the president of Peru Pedro Castillo (sic)”, expressed Petro On twitter.

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The leader added that in the case of Castle “The right to elect and be elected and to have an independent judging court have been violated.”

I request the @IACHR apply the American Convention on Human Rights and issue precautionary measures in favor of the president of Peru Pedro Castillo.

The right to elect and be elected and to have an independent judging court have been violated.

— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) December 8, 2022

Castillo was dismissed on Wednesday by Congress for “permanent moral incapacity” and stopped shortly after by the police, after the self hit that he gave in the morning of that same day when he announced the dissolution of the Legislature.

The now former president He was transferred to the Barbadillo prisonwhere former president Alberto Fujimori is being held, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence.

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The one who was vice president of Castillo, Dina Boluartetemporarily assumed the head of state after being sworn in before the Congressthus becoming the first female president of Peru.

This is the second statement that Petro has made about the Castillo case, since hours before he assured that the ousted Peruvian president “allowed himself to be led to political and democratic suicide,” while he advocated dialogue in the neighboring country.

“Pedro Castillo Because he was a professor in the mountains and a popularly elected president, he was cornered from day one. He did not achieve the mobilization of the people who elected him, he allowed himself to be led to political and democratic suicide ”expressed Petro on Twitter first thing in the morning.

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The Colombian president added: “Hopefully Peru finds the path of dialogue for its entire society.”

Also he recalled that when he met Castillo “they were trying to break into the government palace to arrest his wife and daughter.”

“Troubled, he received me. A parliamentary coup was already underway against him. I was surprised that they remained locked up in the Palace, isolated from the people who elected them.” added the Colombian president.

Nevertheless, considered that Castillo “was wrong in trying to use the article of the Peruvian Constitution that allows the dissolution of Congress that he had already decided to remove him without respecting the popular will.”

Source: Elcomercio

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