Jorge Glas’ lawyers go to the UN and the IACHR to ask Ecuador to hand him over to Mexico

The legal defense of Jorge Glasformer vice president of Ecuador (2013-2017) during Rafael Correa’s presidential term, he participated in the Human Rights Council of UN Still the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to request that he be released and handed over Mexico after being detained inside the Mexican embassy in Quitoin a police attack by force when he had already received asylum.

At a press conference held in Guayaquilwhere Glas has been held for a month at the maximum security prison in The rockthe lawyer Aitor Martinez explained that they filed a complaint with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to ask Ecuador to free him and allow him to travel to Mexico.

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In the complaint, filed on April 19, they argued that Glas was the victim of “kidnapping” it’s from “very serious abuse”at the time of arrest in Mexican Embassyordered by the president Daniel Noboa considering that there was a supposed risk of flight due to the arrest warrant against him.

They later expanded the complaint to add the resolution of the Ecuadorian court that declared “illegal” It is “arbitrary” his capture and informed him of the “very limited communication” that the former vice president has inside La Roca, which would prevent him from having private conversations with his legal team.

Glas, who rejects the accusations against him and declares himself politically persecuted, is being prosecuted for alleged embezzlement (embezzlement of public funds) in reconstruction works after the devastating 2016 earthquake, and has not yet served an eight-year sentence. in prison for two convictions for bribery and illicit association handed down in 2017 and 2022.

“We have insisted on the need for the Working Group to activate the emergency procedure, and that in the short term there may be some manifestation from the United Nations in relation to the situation of arbitrary detention that Mr. Glas suffers to this day.”, noted Martínez.

The defense also asked the Group of UN for a delegation from the international organization to visit the imprisoned former employee.

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A similar request was made by the defense before the IACHRwhich already granted precautionary measures to Glas in 2019, in which he requested Ecuador to take measures to protect his life and integrity when he was in prison as a result of his two previous convictions.

This time, his legal team requested the extension of these measures and that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights grant him provisional measures to protect him, which “implies your immediate release and transfer to the Mexican Embassy or to another State that wants to intervene (also granting you asylum)” said the lawyer Sonia Vera

“We also requested that communications and visits be reestablished and that the right to a fair trial be guaranteed.”, said Vera.

Glas’ legal team has also initiated legal action in Mexico and Germanyas Glas also has citizenship of this second country.

In Germany, a complaint was filed for the crimes of deprivation of liberty, serious bodily harm and coercion, while in Mexico it was Glas’ mother, Norma Espinelwho denounced the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, to the Minister of the Interior, Monica Palenciato the judge of the National Court Rita Bravo and the chief of police and military.

The crimes covered by the mother’s complaint are kidnapping, subjection to torture, cruel and inhuman treatment and forced disappearance, as a result of the events that occurred at the Embassy, ​​which led to the breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two countries and legal action in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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In both cases, the lawyers highlighted, the Public Prosecutor’s Offices in those countries are already investigating and collecting the relevant information.

Jorge Glas He has been on a hunger strike based on food and liquid supplements since his arrest on April 6.

The Noboa Government justifies the attack on the Embassy and the arrest of Glas by the fact that Mexico was the first country to transgress the international conventions that govern diplomatic missions by protecting the former vice-president, who was granted asylum when the Caracas Convention prevents the granting of this benefit to people convicted in common courts or prosecuted for common crimes.

Source: Elcomercio

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