Ecuador

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR

Ecuador: Fear for safety/arbitrary detention : José Miguel ...
7 February 2001

Student leader, José Miguel Cabuyales Alvear, has been abducted from his home after taking part in recent protests and demonstrations against the government's economic ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/005/2001

Ecuador: Further information on Fear for safety / Arbitrary ...
2 February 2001

Antonio Vargas and Luis Villacís Maldonado were released on 1 February after their lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition. The judge in charge of the case ordered ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/003/2001

Ecuador: Fear for safety/arbitrary detention/legal concern ...
1 February 2001

Community leader Fernando Villavicencio was reportedly arrested by the security forces on 31 January in the capital, Quito. It is believed that his arrest was ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/002/2001

Ecuador: Fear for safety / Arbitrary detention / Legal concern
31 January 2001

Two leading Ecuadoran activists, Antonio Vargas and Luis Villacís, have been detained seemingly for exercising their right to freedom of expression and association ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/001/2001

Ecuador: Fear for safety/Death Threats
7 December 2000

Police officers are on trial for the murder of two men, and the sole witness, Pedro Geovanny Baque, has received death threats. Police have allegedly tortured the ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/017/2000

Ecuador: Fear for safety/possible "disappearance"
22 November 2000

One man, Elias Elint López Pita, has "disappeared" after police arrested him, and another man, Luis Alberto Shinin Laso, who testified that he saw him in police ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/016/2000

Ecuador: Arbitrary detention of transvestites
31 August 2000

This document provides details of the cases of nine transvestite sex workers who were detained by police and forced to undergo HIV tests. Amnesty International ...

Report       AMR 28/014/2000

Ecuador: Pedro Baque Tuárez and the Jaramillo brothers: Another ...
31 August 2000

Amnesty International is concerned about the extrajudicial execution of two brothers, Pedro and Carlos Jaramillo Mera, and the attempted extrajudicail execution ...

Report       AMR 28/013/2000

Ecuador: Fear for safety/Death Threats
15 June 2000

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Ernesto Murillo Cañarte, Julio Peláez, Alberto Palacios, Harold Moreira, Yuri Washington Collantes Pin's family ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/012/2000

Ecuador: Fear for safety/Torture
22 May 2000

The following people: Benjamín Álvarez; Herney Hernández; Marilú Marcillo Rivas; José Humberto Leal Hernández; Rubiela Margoth Díaz Álvarez; and a one-year-old ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/011/2000