Overview
- The bill was presented by Deputy Catherin Palomino and dozens of co-signers from Juntos por el Perú and Partido Cívico Obras on Saturday and is now pending committee review in Congress.
- It defines two amnesties: one for acts tied to Pedro Castillo's Dec. 7, 2022 message and a second for acts committed in protests from July 28, 2021 until the day before the law takes effect.
- The proposal would extinguish criminal actions and penalties, order definitive archiving of cases, and lift detention measures including arrest warrants and preventive custody for covered acts.
- An annex names specific potential beneficiaries such as Pedro Castillo, Betssy Chávez, Aníbal Torres and Willy Huerta, and the text would extinguish State-held civil claims including the S/12 million judgment noted in Castillo’s sentence while keeping reparations for private victims.
- The draft excludes crimes that caused deaths or serious injury, sexual violence, kidnapping, torture, trafficking, use of firearms or explosives, major drug and illegal mining offenses and crimes by officials in public-order operations, and it cites the UN Working Group Opinion 78/2025 as part of its justification while drawing firm political opposition that could block passage.