[ad_1]
The Special Monitoring Team of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will badyze this week in Quito the case of the Ecuadorian press team kidnapped last March in the border area and killed in captivity in Colombia.
The ESE visit will take place between 25 and 27 July, according to the agenda given to Efe by Yadira Aguagallo, girlfriend of Paúl Rivas, the murdered photographer with journalist Javier Ortega and driver Efraín Segarra . 19659003] The delegation that will visit the country will be composed of Esmeralda Arosemena, first vice-president of the IACHR and rapporteur for Ecuador as well as Edison Lanza, special rapporteur for freedom of expression and technical support staff.
During his stay in Ecuador meetings are scheduled with representatives of different institutions, including the Ministries of the Interior and Defense, as well as
Similarly, a meeting with relatives of the murdered press team is on the agenda, which will give the representatives of the SEE the information reserved on the case that they have received from the Ecuadorian government. The IACHR will also visit the premises of the newspaper El Comercio, where they will talk to executives and journalists.
The murdered press team was buried on June 29 after their bodies were found in Colombia and subjected to a process of identification.
Ortega, Rivas and Segarra were abducted on March 26 in the Mataje region, in the coastal province of Esmeraldas, on the border with Colombia, where they conducted journalistic work on the rise of violence In the region.
Shortly afterwards, a dissident faction of the former FARC guerrilla group calling itself "Front Sinisterra Oliver" badumed the paternity of the kidnapping and on April 13 the Ecuadorian President, Lenin Moreno confirmed the triple murder.
This group is also attributed to the kidnapping and murder of Katty Velasco Pinargote and Oscar Villacís Gómez, an Ecuadorian couple who had traveled to Esmeraldas
The couple's bodies were repatriated on July 6 after being identified in Colombia with the help of their loved ones and buried two days later in their native province of Santo Domingo de los Táschilas. EFE
Source link
