President Noboa warns that prisoners repatriated to Colombia will not be able to return to Ecuador

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboawarned this Tuesday that prisoners who are repatriated to Colombiauntil they finish serving their sentence in that country, they will no longer be able to return to Ecuador.

“They will not be able to re-enter the Ecuador. They are prohibited from entering the Ecuador forever. We will no longer allow people to go to Colombia and then return to commit the same crimes. He’s gone, he’s not coming back”, he stressed.

consulted on television Equavisa If the procedure consists of taking repatriated prisoners by bus or plane and leaving them at the border, Noboa said: “This is the idea”.

Encrypted in 1,500 Colombian prisoners in Ecuadorian prisons.

Without going into details or announcing action dates, Noboa to point: “We’re moving forward, well, 100 by 100 until we’re done with the whole thing.”

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Procedure for repatriation

Monday, Noboa ordered the National Service of Comprehensive Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the State penitentiary body, to initiate repatriation procedures for foreign prisoners, so that they can finish serving their sentences in their countries of origin.

Through an executive decree, Noboa It established that this procedure is based on current local and international regulations, is individualized and that groups are not repatriated.

Executive Order 139 provides that the SNAI “carry out the administrative procedures necessary for the repatriation of foreigners deprived of liberty due to a sentence handed down in Ecuador, so that their sentence can be executed in the country of origin or nationality”.

This procedure must observe “at all times what is provided for in constitutional norms and current legalas well as in applicable international instruments”, is detailed in the decree.

The decree entrusted the coordination of necessary actions to the ministries of Relations ExteriorsWomen and Human Rights, Interior and Government (Politics).

Likewise, it established that “O derivative procedures of the execution of the decree will be adopted respecting national and international regulations on the matter.”

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More than 3,000 foreigners

According to the state National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), the country’s prison population amounts to 31,321 people distributed across the 36 Deprivation of Liberty Centers across the country.

Of this total, 3,245 prisoners are foreigners, the majority (2,900) men, according to the latest prison census prepared by the INEC.

For around four years, Ecuador’s prison system was in a deep crisis due, among other factors, to overcrowding, lack of budgets and frequent massacres among criminal gangs who fought for control of prisons.

In these massacres, which have occurred since 2020, More than 450 prisoners were murdered due to disputes between criminal gangs inside prisons, in a spiral of violence that also took to the streets.

At the beginning of this January, Noboa, in power since November 23rd, declared a state of emergency on a national scale and the following day he signed a decree that admitted “an internal armed conflict” against organized crime gangs.

With him, Noboa guaranteed the intervention of the Armed forces in joint operations with the Police to “neutralize” the organized crime groups that caused the chaos and those it identified as “terrorists”.

Source: Elcomercio

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