Jorge Glas: “They threw me against the wall and started kicking and kneeing me”

Jorge Glasformer vice president of Ecuador during the presidential term of Rafael Corrêa (2007-2017), assured this Thursday that he was a victim of torture during his detention last Friday inside the Embassy of Mexico in Quitoattacked by Ecuadorian police after the Mexican government granted him asylum.

In his first public intervention since being arrested, Glas detailed the details of his capture at the court hearing evaluating his appeal. habeas corpus presented by the defense of the former vice president to request that his detention be annulled and that the Ecuadorian State hand him over Mexico or to a third country that also respects the granted asylum.

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Glas, who attended the hearing via videoconference from The rockthe maximum security prison of Ecuadorreported receiving a beating in which he also claims that two fingers on his hands were dislocated and put back in place.

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Looking disheveled and on hunger strike according to his lawyer Sonia VeraGlas reported that the police found him inside the Mexican diplomatic headquarters after having subdued his responsible boss, Roberto Cansecofor those who requested a decoration from the Mexican government.

“I open the door, they put their flashlights in my face and push their rifles towards me. I fall into my seat and they start yelling at me. I was in my pajamas and just said let me get dressed and get my medicine.,” said Glas, who also demanded not to be handcuffed.

“It wasn’t enough for them to throw me against the wall, slam my head against the wall and start kicking me and kneeing me in the hips. They threw me to the ground, jumped on me, stepped on my neck and kicked me in the ribs.” he added.

The former vice president indicated that “one of the guys masked in black, who claimed to be the leader (of the operation)“He dislocated her finger after saying it was so she would remember him.

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“Streamed live”

“They handcuffed me and I was left hanging with my hands behind me, in a clear torture position.“said Glas, who also stated that”the torture method was being broadcast live”.

“Who would be on the other side? (Perhaps) the Police Commander, probably with the toast, or perhaps the President. Until this is proven, I prefer to think it is a lie, because it embarrasses me as an Ecuadorian.” he added.

Glas highlighted that they carried him handcuffed with his arms behind his back to cause more damage and take him “like a war trophy”.

In the vehicle that took him to the Quito Police Unit, the former vice president said that the police “they were a fanfare inside”. “I was lying on the floor with a boot on my neck, my whole body turned around and my hands behind me. and they took me in the act in the same way” he added.

“Recognition” as a politically persecuted person

For Glas, the asylum granted to him by the government of the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador It is “recognition as politically persecuted”, a title that the former vice president maintains to claim his innocence in the face of the criminal proceedings and convictions against him.

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Before the López Obrador government granted him asylum, Glas had an arrest warrant for his return to prison in the case of the reconstruction of the province of Manabithe most affected by the 2016 earthquake, where he is accused of alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of public funds).

Likewise, he had not yet returned to prison to finish serving an eight-year prison sentence for two convictions for bribery and illicit association, the last of which under the Odebrecht case which seeks to reverse after in Brazil the computer system with nicknames of bribe recipients was annulled as evidence.

“Sooner or later, justice will be served on this. I ask that (my detention) be returned to its previous state. I’ve been locked up in prison three times. Enough“, said Glas, who was previously imprisoned between 2017 and 2022, and who was released under a controversial judicial resolution of precautionary measures.

Source: Elcomercio

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