Peru's jailed former president hospitalized after days on hunger strike
Pedro Castillo transferred to hospital on suspicion of fluid-electrolyte imbalance, mild dehydration, says local media
Sinan Dogan and Serdar Dincel |
14.03.2025 - Update : 14.03.2025
Peru’s jailed former president hospitalized after days on hunger strike
BOGOTA, Colombia/ISTANBUL
Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has been hospitalized after three days on a hunger strike protesting his rebellion trial.
Castillo was taken by ambulance from the prison on Thursday where he has been held since December 2022 to a hospital in the Vitarte neighborhood in the Ate district, according to local media.
Authorities said Castillo was transferred to the hospital on suspicion of fluid-electrolyte imbalance and mild dehydration.
Judge Norma Carbajal said the 55-year-old was not in a life-threatening condition, adding that the former president was hospitalized for precautionary purposes and that his condition is stable.
Meanwhile, Castillo's visitor rights were suspended due to his hunger strike, which violated prison rules.
His former lawyer Walter Ayala announced that Castillo had applied to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to have his rights restored.
Castillo announced on March 10 that he had begun a hunger strike in prison in protest of his rebellion trial.
Denying the charges against him, Castillo claimed that he had been unjustly imprisoned for crimes he had never committed.
More:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/peru-s-jailed-former-president-hospitalized-after-days-on-hunger-strike/3509258#
(He dared to run for the Presidency while being a brown indigenous Peruvian, former teacher, politically progressive man in a country which has been controlled by a racist, fascist ruling class for hundreds of years.)
