The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visits the coup leader Castillo in the Barbadillo prison

• Peru Castillo already sleeps in the Barbadillo prison, very close to Fujimori

• Latin America Peru, a crusher of presidents

The technical team sent to Peru by

(IACHR) went today to the

prison in Lima to visit former President Pedro Castillo, who hours before had launched an "urgent" appeal for this meeting to take place.

"We met with the former president and his defense and verified that his prison conditions are in line with those provided for in the Criminal Enforcement Code," published the Ombudsman's Office, which accompanied the IACHR delegates.

From her asylum in Mexico, the president's wife,

, also warned about the state of Castillo's health, who is waiting for 18 months in preventive detention after being accused of rebellion and conspiracy.

In one of his letters, the presidential standard-bearer of the Marxist Peru Libre (PL) assured that he suffers an "arbitrary" deprivation of his rights.

The IACHR envoys verified first-hand the conditions of the confinement of the former coup leader, who along with Alberto Fujimori, another former president who also led a self-coup, are the only tenants in the jail.

Both enjoy an area without bars, which include rooms to meet with their visitors.

Since December 7, Castillo has been able to communicate through a mobile phone and unleash an epistolary literature with several inflammatory letters calling for protest.

His messages on Twitter are constant and in many of them he shows his satisfaction for the unconditional support of various presidents of the so-called "pink tide", such as the leftists Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico), Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Luis Arce ( Bolivia).

The former president has received more than 160 visits, among relatives, lawyers and political co-religionists.

He has assured one of them, the radical deputy

that he will take advantage of the time to work in a dry garden located in his prison area.

The IACHR delegation also held a meeting hours before with various relatives of Castillo.

"We tell them the truth, we feel trampled, they have no justice of any kind.

and everything be made transparent," insisted Vilma, the former president's niece.

The IACHR mission has also visited the neuralgic points of the unleashed protests, especially in the southern Andes.

The

and military repression have caused the death of at least 22 people, most of them young people.

Human rights organizations directly accuse the military and agents of using weapons of war against the protesters.

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