2024-05-09 13:12:33
The defense of the former vice president of Ecuador, Jorge Glas, condemned the deterioration of the former official’s health in the La Roca prison in Guayas, to which he was transferred following being arrested on April 5, during the attack by public forces on the embassy from Mexico in Quito, where he had sought refuge since December 2023.
“Yesterday I had the opportunity to see him, his health has really deteriorated. He is not receiving medicine, especially the one that treats his juvenile ankylosing spondylitis disease (a type of arthritis), which is one of the most worrying; so, no receiving timely treatment […] and it generates a state of terrible immunosuppression,” said Sonia Vera, who is part of Glass’s legal team, in an interview with Radio La Calle.
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Likewise, he noted that the former vice president continues on a hunger strike. “He’s only taking fluids” and getting vitamins “intravenously,” he indicated.
On the other hand, Vera commented that Glass’s relatives have not been able to visit him and that his legal team has not had access to his client as stipulated by international human rights standards and Ecuadorian laws themselves.
“The only ones who have been able to visit him, and protected by the military, have been his national lawyers and the assembly members of the block (of Citizen Revolution) who have asked to visit him to carry out an inspection process,” he mentioned request to the UN
On Tuesday, Aitor Martínez, Glass’s lawyer, reported that they asked the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to approach Ecuadorian authorities to request the “immediate freedom” of the former official.
He also indicated that they have asked for a document of safe conduct to be issued “expressly” so that Glas, to whom Mexico granted diplomatic asylum, can leave Ecuador “under safe conditions.”
Glass’ legal team also urged members of this working group of the UN Human Rights Council to visit the former vice president in La Roca prison.
Previously, Norma Mercedes Espinel Araúz, Glass’s mother, filed a complaint once morest the President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, and other high-ranking officials of his government for crimes such as torture, kidnapping, violation of the duties of humanity and forced disappearance to harm. of his son.
Espinel, who lives in Spain, submitted the complaint in the company of his lawyers to the Attaché office of the Mexican Attorney General (FGE) at the embassy in the Aztec country.
For her part, Mexico’s foreign minister, Alicia Bárcena, pointed out that if they “provide safe conduct” and “hand over” Glas, they can start talking to de-escalate the conflict generated following the breach. into the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
Source: RT News
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