Jorge Glas went on a hunger strike in prison
- April 10, 2024
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Jorge Glas, former Vice President of Ecuador During the reign of Rafael Correa he beganhunger strike in prisonconfirmed his lawyer Sonya Vera. In a post on social networks,
Jorge Glas, former Vice President of Ecuador During the reign of Rafael Correa he beganhunger strike in prisonconfirmed his lawyer Sonya Vera.
In a post on social networks, Vera indicated that the legal team is leading the defense of Glas.”“Finally” he managed to establish contact with the former vice presidentwho is in the maximum security prison of La Roca, Ecuador, located in Guayaquil.
On Monday, Glass was hospitalized on an emergency basis after apparent decompensation, which, according to a police report accessed by the defense, may have been caused by drug overdoseand the prison authorities attributed this to his refusal to eat.
Glas accuses the police of beating him
In a fragment of a video conference with Glas shared by the lawyer, the former vice president says that the police who arrested him beat him and did not allow him to stand up while his rights were read, which, according to the detainee, was filmed by cameras in the detention center. Security of the Mexican Embassy.
Plaintiff Vera noted that Glass thanked the government of Mexican President Andres Manuel. Lopez Obrador for granting him asylum.
Asylum did not give me freedom, but it gave me the dignity of a politically persecuted person.
Ecuadorian police raid the Mexican embassy in Quito
Glas has been at the Mexican Embassy in Quito since December 17, 2023, where he entered as a guest and then seek asylum declaring himself a politically persecuted person and a victim of “the law” (the use of the judicial apparatus against political opponents), which the Ecuadorian government denies.
The former vice president had an arrest warrant to return to prison after being charged with an alleged crime of embezzlement in the 2016 earthquake reconstruction effort.
The court also ruled that he must return to prison to serve an eight-year prison sentence for two convictions for bribery and unlawful association, most recently in the Odebrecht case, of which he had already served nearly five years from 2017 to 2022.
Diplomatic crisis between Mexico and Ecuador
Violation of Ecuadorian police regulations at the Mexican embassy led to the government Lopez Obrador breaks off diplomatic relations with Ecuador and file a complaint against the International Court of Justice in The Hague, considering that its sovereignty and international law have been violated.
The forced entry into the diplomatic headquarters was also strongly condemned this Wednesday by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), as well as by the international community.
Ecuador was the only country to vote against the OAS resolution because Mexico violated the Convention on Diplomatic Asylum by granting asylum to a person prosecuted for ordinary crimes, which it considers interference in internal affairs. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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