GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (Reuters) – Ecuador’s former Vice President Jorge Glas has been evacuated from jail after an try on his life, his lawyer mentioned on Sunday, blaming the federal government for the state of affairs.
Sonia Gabriela Vera known as for the United Nations and different worldwide organizations to intervene after what she known as an “tried assassination” of Glas in La Roca jail.
The assault “is the results of a State that has condemned him to hazard, torture and gradual dying,” Vera mentioned on X, commenting on a publish that claimed Glas had been taken from the jail amid a risk on his life from mutinying prisoners.
“His emergency evacuation confirms what we’ve denounced repeatedly: they’re intentionally taking part in along with his life,” Vera added. “If something occurs to him, it will likely be against the law of the State.”
Ecuador’s SNAI prisons company didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Glas was detained in April after Ecuadorean safety forces stormed Mexico’s embassy in Quito, the place he was holed up after searching 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 additionally faces prices of misusing funds collected to help reconstruction of coastal Manabi province after a devastating 2016 earthquake.
