United Nations particular rapporteur for torture Alice Edwards mentioned on Thursday she is alarmed over allegations that Ecuador’s former Vice President Jorge Glas was struggling torture whereas detained on the Andean nation’s La Roca jail.
“I’m disturbed by medical and different experiences which counsel that Mr. Glas was subjected to torture, together with dislocated thumbs, lacerations on his wrists from the over-use of handcuffs, and contusions and bruising on his arms, thighs and thorax, indicative of bodily beatings,” she mentioned in a press release.
Glas was detained in April this yr after Ecuadorean safety forces stormed Mexico’s embassy in Quito, the place he was holed up after looking for asylum. Whereas Glas’ supporters say the arrest is politically motivated, the ex-vice president has been convicted for corruption on two different events. Glas’ lawyer mentioned on X it was pressing his rights and well-being had been protected.
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