2024-07-25 15:31:12
The International Committee will request the IACHR to extend the precautionary measures in favor of the former Ecuadorian vice president. On July 4, 2024, the Citizen Revolution movement presented the International Committee for the Freedom of Jorge Glas, which will carry out legal and political actions in Ecuador and abroad to achieve the release of the former Ecuadorian vice president.
The Committee will have an Advisory Council chaired by former Argentine President Alberto Fernández and made up of former Presidents of Bolivia, Evo Morales; of Colombia, Ernesto Samper; and of Ecuador, Rafael Correa; as well as Marco Enríquez Ominami, coordinator of the Puebla Group.
In the legal and coordination field, there will be Tamara Lajtman, from the Lawfare Observatory; Sacha Llorenti, from Bolivia; Andrés Arauz and Francisco Hidalgo, from Ecuador; Ana Flavia Marx, from Brazil; Claudia Roca, from the Association of Jurists of Argentina; and Irene León, from the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity, among others.
Sacha Llorenti announced that the first action will be to send a letter to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to request the intervention of this body and the extension of precautionary measures in favor of Glas.
The letter will be signed by former presidents Ernesto Samper of Colombia; José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain; Evo Morales of Bolivia; Alberto Fernández of Argentina; and Manuel Zelaya of Honduras. The letter will bear the title: “Urgent request for intervention and extension of precautionary measures.”
The document will detail the police assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito, which took place on April 5, in which Glas, who was in political asylum, was arrested. According to Llorenti, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa ordered the armed assault on the diplomatic headquarters, resulting in the violent kidnapping of Jorge Glas.
“On April 5, the entire world witnessed an unprecedented attack on international law and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean,” he said.
Tamara Lajtman considered Glas’s arrest to be a premeditated kidnapping directed by Noboa, in which her rights were violated. Glas was subsequently the victim of rights violations, lack of medical care, judicial harassment and political persecution, according to Lajtman.
The International Committee for the Freedom of Jorge Glas will seek to restore the rights of the former vice president, guarantee his life, recover his status as a political asylum seeker and obtain a safe-conduct pass from the Ecuadorian government so that he can travel to Mexico.