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He Puebla Group included in the number international organizations and lawyers who will participate in the court hearing of the appeal of the writ of habeas corpus demanding
He Puebla Group included in the number international organizations and lawyers who will participate in the court hearing of the appeal of the writ of habeas corpus demanding the release of Jorge Glasformer Vice President of Ecuador between 2013 and 2017, during the presidential term of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), so Mexico can welcome himwho was detained after Ecuadorian authorities stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito.
At a press conference, the legal team defending Glass announced the unification of these international organizations under the auspices of “amicus curiae”. on the habeas corpus appeal, which The first instance found his detention at the Mexican Embassy on April 5 illegal and arbitrary.but left him in prison on a sentence that still stands for two previous convictions for corruption.
Glas, one of the influential people in the Correa government, He has been part of the Mexican diplomatic delegation since December 17, 2023.when he came to ask for asylum, well He has always denied accusations and accusations against him. and declared himself politically persecuted and a victim of the “law” (the use of the judicial apparatus against political opponents).
At the time of his arrest about the former vice president He was placed under preventive arrest because he was accused of alleged embezzlement. (embezzlement of public funds) in a case involving reconstruction work after a major earthquake in 2016, with a judge ruling that he should end up serving his sentence in prison sentence to 8 years in prison, for which he had already served almost five yearsbetween 2017 and 2022.
Except Puebla Groupwill also take part in the hearings as an “amicus curiae” in a lawsuit in favor of Glas on Loufer ObservatoryArgentine lawyer Eugenio Zaffaroni and former Bolivian Ambassador to the UN Sasha Llorenti.
Through a video conference, the co-founder of Puebla Group, Chilean Marco Henriques-Ominami assured that This task is important for your organization, because, in his opinion, Glas’s life is in dangerwho, since his arrest, has spent more than a month in custody in La Roca, Ecuador’s maximum security prison.
Enriquez-Ominami noted that the Puebla group has been following the Glas case for many years. believe that the trial in which he was found guilty lacked due process and said that the asylum status that Mexico had granted him was now violated.
Tamara Laitman from the Lofara Observatory assured that In Ecuador, there is a “legal model of combating correism,” which crossed all boundaries with the attack on the Mexican embassy. until it became “law” internationally.
In this sense, he believed that the reaction of the inter-American system, where the Organization of American States (OAS) strongly condemned the embassy invasion, “It wasn’t violent.”
Lightman believed that “What the Ecuadorian executive did could be considered a casu belli (cause for war).”
He also doubted that Ecuadorian justice believed the detention was illegal and would not have released him or kept him in prison for previous convictions.
The same fact is legal for one and illegal for another. This violates basic principles of consistency.
For his part, Zaffaroni stated that “what the The government of Ecuador has no precedent from a legal perspective.”
Our America, with its extremely controversial history, has never ignored or violated the right to diplomatic asylum throughout its history. Safe passages were denied, as in the famous case of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (historical leader of the Peruvian APRA), but the (Colombian) embassy was not invaded or kidnapped.
From the Government of Ecuador, President Daniel Noboa: Mexico was the first country to violate international standards by granting asylum to a person prosecuted for ordinary crimes and convicted by ordinary courts.as also provided for in the Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum.
Meanwhile, Ecuadorian lawyer Edison Loaiza argued that Glas is kidnapped by the state, which claims he should be released for good behavior in prison starting in 2021. and claimed his right to prison benefits “until freedom”, which the national justice system had hitherto denied him.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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