Peru: Former pres. Pedro Castillo's health decompensates due to hunger strike

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Former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo was hospitalized in Lima due to a health decompensation, after starting a hunger strike to protest against his trial.

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00:00Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was hospitalized in Lima due to a health decompensation

00:06after starting a hunger strike to protest against his trial.

00:10Pedro Castillo's health decompensated in the Bardabadillo prison after he went on a hunger

00:14strike in rejection of the oral trial on the failed coup d'etat on December 7, 2022.

00:20Castillo's public defender asked for the hearing to be suspended, however, the representatives

00:24of the prosecutor's office replied and indicated since the defendant's legal representative

00:28was present, the session could continue.

00:31After a brief debate, Supreme Judge Norbert Carvajal said that the trial would not be

00:35suspended because it was a provoked unilateral act.

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