Benji Espinoza after rescheduling preventive detention reading: "Yenifer Paredes and José Medina must be released"

Benji Espinoza, lawyer for President Pedro Castillo, referred to the rescheduling of the reading of the resolution on the request for preventive detention against Yenifer Paredes and the mayor of Anguía, José Medina Guerrero, and considered that both should be released.

In a dialogue with RPP Noticias, he stated that in Peruvian law there is no concept of temporary custody of those under investigation whose preliminary detention has already expired, since it does not have legal protection.

“I believe that Yenifer Paredes should be released immediately, like Mr. Nenil, because in Peruvian law there is no custody figure. There is only preliminary detention, which in this case has been ten days and that she has already expired in excess, and then the judge has to decide immediately “he expressed.

“There is no temporary custody, there is no ‘I’ll detain you while I resolve’, there is no legal protection. Both people have to regain their freedom and not wait for the judge’s decision, which has indicated that it will be announced this Sunday.”he added.

In this sense, for the president’s lawyer, the forms of limitation or deprivation of liberty are expressed in the law and the Constitution, and are supposed “very clear”with which for him any other measure “has no legal basis”.

“The important thing here is that from this case, to be able to put as an example that it is important that the judges internalize that if there is no normative, legal protection, what corresponds is that the time of the preliminary detention expires, order the release and that these people can freely face the hearing and the decision, in the sense that it is pronounced “he underlined.

Statements by Benji Espinoza on rescheduling the reading of the preventive detention order against Yenifer Paredes and José Medina. (Video: RPPTV)

It should be noted that Judge Johnny Gómez Balboa suspended the reading of the resolution on the request for preventive detention against Yenifer Paredes and Jose Medina Guerrerobecause your instance has a work load, with complex cases.

In this way, the hearing against the sister-in-law of President Pedro Castillo and the mayor of Anguía will take place next Sunday August 28 at 4:00 pm.