Overview
- Peru’s judiciary approved separate nine-month pretrial detentions in two human-rights cases, one over a prison death in Juliaca and another over the 2025 killing of two Asháninka territorial defenders in Ucayali, as evidence gathering continues.
- In the Juliaca case, an INPE guard, Óscar Pineda, and inmates César Daniel Rosales Alipio and Niurman Alexander Calzadilla Pérez are being held while investigated for aggravated torture that led to the death of inmate Flavio Mamani Apaza.
- Medical examiners reported that Mamani died by strangulation, and prosecutors say Pineda, then a pavilion chief, enabled access to the isolation cell and failed to supervise, allowing the inmates to attack a prisoner who had written that he feared for his life.
- INPE workers and the local union in Puno protested outside the prosecutor’s office to demand Pineda’s release, asserting he is not responsible for the killing.
- In Ucayali, Leito Pardave and brothers Yerson and Alfredo Navarro were ordered held on aggravated homicide accusations after prosecutors linked the deaths of Benny Raúl and Raúl Andy Coquinche to a territorial raid by 35 to 40 armed men, with a fourth suspect, Javier Campos, already under an earlier order.