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The court that deliberates on the petition of the former vice president of Ecuador Jorge Glas that his arrest was carried out inside the Embassy of Mexico in Quito After receiving asylum and ordering the Ecuadorian State to return him to Mexico, he will reveal his decision this Friday.
A source of National Court of Justice (CNJ) confirmed to EFE that the hearing scheduled for Thursday was suspended at 04:15 this Friday (09:15 GMT) so that the judges could deliberate.
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Furthermore, he stated that the audience will reinstall at 3pm this Friday (08h GMT) and the jury’s decision will be known.
At the hearing, Andrés Villegaslawyer for glassargued that the capture of the former vice president of Rafael Corrêa It was illegal because it did not meet any regulated criteria and it was arbitrary because his human rights were violated by depriving him of the asylum he had been granted. Mexico.
For this reason, the lawyer asked the court CNJ which evaluates the habeas corpus which is released again and delivered to the nearest diplomatic mission, after having been closed Mexico from him Embassy in Quito after the police operation to arrest Glas or an embassy from another country that also undertakes to accept him as an asylum seeker.
Villegas He questioned the fact that the police report on the arrest operation was declared “secret” so that the details are not known and highlighted that “it is clear that there was no search warrant” against the Mexican Embassy and that the diplomatic mission was not previously consulted about the possibility of carrying out this procedure, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The lawyer insisted that the principle of the inviolability of diplomatic missions had been violated, “and took personal property, such as cell phones and even an electronic tablet Jorge Glas”which is declared “persecuted politician”.
In his speech at the prison hearing, glass indicated that he had been beaten by the police who arrested him, who dislocated two of his fingers and who removed him from the Embassy handcuffed and carried with his arms behind his back, in “a position of torture”.
Glas also noted that the asylum granted by the government of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López ObradorIt is “a recognition” from what is “a politically persecuted”, which he maintains to declare himself innocent of the legal proceedings and sentences against him.
In turn, the judge CNJ Penitentiary Guarantees, Melissa MunozHe recalled that at the time glass entered the Mexican Embassy He did not have an arrest warrant, which was later issued because he was accused of alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of public funds) in the case of the reconstruction of Manabí, the province most affected by the 2016 earthquake.
Likewise, he specified that Glas, who was vice-president of belt (2007-2017) and at the beginning of the Administration of Lenin Moreno (2017-2021) had to return to prison to finish serving an eight-year sentence, the result of two convictions for bribery and illicit association handed down in previous years.
For her part, the Minister of the Interior and Government, Monica Palenciajustified the arrest of glass in which for the Ecuadorian Executive there was never asylum for the former vice president, since the Diplomatic Asylum Convention maintains that it cannot be granted to anyone prosecuted for common crimes.
He also ruled out any persecution glass“which has been in progress since 2017, when (Danilo) Noboa “He was not yet president and not for political crimes.”
The arrest of glass He took to Mexico break off relations with Ecuador and report this to International Court of Justice in The Hague considering that both its sovereignty and international law have been violated.
Source: Elcomercio
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