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.