Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo says that he is beginning a hunger strike in protest of the start of an oral trial against him for the alleged crime of rebellion.

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has ended a four-day hunger strike that he began in protest of his trial on rebellion and other charges, judicial authorities announced Friday. A judicial clerk informed the Supreme Court's panel overseeing the case that Castillo ended the hunger strike Thursday afternoon after being released from a hospital where he was taken that same day because of a “health problem.

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has been taken from prison to a hospital days after beginning a hunger strike in protest of his ongoing rebellion trial.