Overview
- The bill PL 00719-2026-2031-CD was formally presented by Catherin Palomino and co-signers from Juntos por el Perú and Partido Cívico Obras on Saturday and is now pending committee review in Congress.
- The text would grant two amnesties: one for people involved in Pedro Castillo’s December 7, 2022 message and another for acts tied to protests from July 28, 2021 through the day before the law takes effect.
- If applied the measure would extinguish criminal actions and penalties, order definitive archiving of cases, lift preventive detention and arrest warrants, and clear police and judicial records for covered acts.
- The draft names Pedro Castillo, Betssy Chávez, Aníbal Torres and Willy Huerta as possible beneficiaries and cites the UN Working Group Opinion 78/2025 on Castillo’s detention as part of its justification.
- The bill excludes killings, serious bodily harm, sexual violence, torture, trafficking, narcotrafficking, illegal mining and serious abuses by officials, yet critics and legal experts warn it could weaken institutional accountability and notes that Palomino chairs the Justice and Human Rights Commission that will process the measure.