Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador during the presidential term of Rafael Correa, arrested last Friday after a surprising and unprecedented police assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito, started a hunger strike in the maximum security prison where he is detained, as confirmed by his lawyer Sonia Vera.
Last Wednesday, in a message on social networks, Vera indicated that the legal team leading Glas’ defense had “finally” managed to contact the former vice president, detained in La Roca, Ecuador’s maximum security prison, located in the city of Guayaquil.
Glas had requested political asylum in Mexico, to avoid serving a sentence for corruption in Ecuador. The government of José Manuel López Obrador had granted it. But the Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa, faced with the alleged “risk of flight” of one of his political enemies, ordered his arrest.
Jorge Glas arrives at the Guayaquil prison, after being detained last Friday at the Mexican embassy in Quito. Photo: AFP Source: Clarin
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