Former President Pedro Castillo, who faces charges of rebellion and other crimes against the state, jokingly makes a call me hand sign inside a courtroom while attending his sentence hearing at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
A supporter of former President Pedro Castillo, who faces charges of rebellion and other crimes against the state, holds a poster with a message that reads in Spanish: "President Castillo, freedom, in defense of the popular vote", outside the police base where Castillo attends a sentence hearing, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
Former President Pedro Castillo, who faces charges of rebellion and other crimes against the state, attends his sentence hearing at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
Former President Pedro Castillo, who faces charges of rebellion and other crimes against the state, jokingly makes a call me hand sign inside a courtroom while attending his sentence hearing at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
A supporter of former President Pedro Castillo, who faces charges of rebellion and other crimes against the state, holds a poster with a message that reads in Spanish: "President Castillo, freedom, in defense of the popular vote", outside the police base where Castillo attends a sentence hearing, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's Supreme Court sentenced former President Pedro Castillo to 11.5 years in prison for conspiracy to commit a rebellion in 2022, when he tried to dissolve the Congress as lawmakers prepared to impeach him.
A special panel of the highest court also banned Castillo,56, from public office for two years. He has been in custody since being arrested in December 2022.
Two of Castillo's former ministers were also sentenced to 11.5 years in prison for the same crime. One of them is ex-Prime Minister Betssy Chávez, who was granted asylum by Mexico and remains inside the Mexican embassy in Peru´s capital, Lima.
The Peruvian government over the asylum to Chávez.
Castillo and his former ministers can appeal the decision.
This is the second Peruvian ex-president sentenced this week. A different court on Wednesday while serving as governor of a southern state.
Castillo promised to be a champion of the poor when he took office in 2021, becoming the first president in the nation’s history to come from a poor farming community. He assumed the presidency without any political experience.
Castillo was replaced by his Vice President after a deeply unpopular government and amid a crime wave affecting the South American nation. The current president is José JerÃ, who was the Congress leader.
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