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Poland and Ukraine deny passage of Russian plane

Poland and Ukraine refused permission for a plane that carrying the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, use their airspace yesterday, August 29, when he returned to his country after visiting Slovakia. Russian First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vladimir Titov,...
Posted On 30 Aug 2014
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Ecuador will have a 47% reduction of its military posts by the year 2017

On Wednesday, the defense minister, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, presented the press with the “new operational design” of the Armed Forces including the relocation of military points, the progressive reduction in manpower and equipment procurement in order to...
Posted On 28 Aug 2014
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Analysis of the demands on the Communication Law will take several sessions

On Wednesday Wendy Molina, president in charge of the Constitutional Court (CC) confirmed that the plenum of the body is studying the draft judgment on the claims of unconstitutionality against the Communications Law, which is why multiple sessions are being organized for a...
Posted On 28 Aug 2014
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Six policemen related to the 30S were sentenced to 12 years in prison

The Seventh Criminal Court of Pichincha has issued a written decision confirming the one from last August 1, which sentence six policemen to 12 years imprisonment over attempted murder against the President of the Republic Rafael Correa during the events the September 30, 2010...
Posted On 27 Aug 2014
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Hearing on 30S is suspended again

The legal situation of 17 policemen investigated for alleged insubordination on September 30, 2010, in Guayaquil, remains unresolved. On Monday, the Judge of Criminal Guarantees of Guayas, Yolanda Martinez, suspended the arraignment hearing and trial arrangement convened to issue...
Posted On 26 Aug 2014
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Jose Nelson Brandao: “If they extradite Mr. Galo Lara, he will be killed”

After the Panamanian government granted extradition for former legislator Tito Galo Lara to respond in Ecuador on charges of multiple homicides, his lawyer Jose Nelson Brandao said that if his client gets to be extradited, he will be killed upon arrival to the country. “If...
Posted On 24 Aug 2014
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Nathalie Cely gave her version on the Plan V magazine published report

This Friday the ambassador of Ecuador, Nathalie Cely, rejected the publication of a research article of the magazine Plan V, entitled ‘Nathalie Cely, Ambassador of contracts’, which referred to alleged contracts signed by her in Washington, for more than $ 7.5...
Posted On 23 Aug 2014
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Legal defense of Abdala Bucaram will be based on the COIP

Luigi Garcia, attorney of former President Abdala Bucaram, who was prosecuted for embezzlement, will request the judges of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym) to use the new rules of the Organic Integral Criminal Code (COIP for its Spanish acronym), which...
Posted On 22 Aug 2014
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Assange case remains unresolved

From Guatemala, during a visit to participate in the V Esquipulas Forum, Spanish lawyer Baltasar Garzon, legal representative of Julian Assange, said his client has suffered “inhuman treatment” after 2 years of living as a political refugee in the Embassy of Ecuador...
Posted On 21 Aug 2014
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German NGO leaves Ecuador due to state “control”

As confirmed by spokesman of the German foundation Konrad Adenauer, Susanne Kophal, “the office at Quito will cease to function from September 1”, thus corroborating the announcement made by the head of the NGO, Winfried Weck. Weck justified the decision of leaving...
Posted On 21 Aug 2014
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