Overview
- On Saturday, former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski publicly said Toledo should be allowed to leave Barbadillo and not die in prison, urging President Keiko Fujimori to consider a grace.
- Alejandro Toledo’s legal team has filed an urgent petition for a presidential grace and has publicly asserted he suffers from cancer, serious heart problems, and mental health issues.
- Justice Minister Ernesto Álvarez stated there is no plan to grant an indulto and said any benefit would require corroborated specialist medical reports to prove a terminal or gravely irreversible condition.
- Lower courts rejected Toledo’s request for prisión domiciliaria and his defense filed a recurso de casación that the Supreme Court’s Sala Penal Permanente will qualify on September 14 to decide if the appeal advances.
- Law No. 32181 expands humanitarian home arrest for people over 80 and the Comisión de Gracias Presidenciales must review any pardon, making the case a test of medical proof, legal procedure, and political precedent dating to the 2017 Fujimori pardon.