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Judge Juan Paredes rejected the declarations of the former judge Monica Encalada, who pointed out that she has evidence that demonstrate that both met prior to hearing of the sentence in case El Universo. “I haven’t met with anybody, I have met with my conscience. In every case,...

Through a press release, Guayaquil’s Mayor, Jaime Nebot indicated today that a memorial wall will be impersonate temporarily the bust that was expected to be placed in the neighborhood Las Peñas, a downtown heritage area in Guayaquil. The decision follows the legal impediment to...

Yesterday the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) published precautionary measures for the directors of El Universo and the former editor of opinion Emilio Palacio. The organization also requested the Ecuadorian government the suspension of the sentence passed by...

The Court of Justice of Sucumbios rejected the provision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, an Ecuadorian ruling ordering the U.S. oil company Chevron to pay 18,000 million dollars as compensation for polluting Amazon area. “Recognizing that the award is...

Rafael Correa‘s government is promoting the Organic Law for the creation of the Council of Inequality, which will be discussed at the next National Assembly, said the Ecuadorian president during his weekly report. Correa had a meeting earlier in the week where he presented...

Lawyers for the defense of President Rafael Correa expressed their disagreement with the ruling issued by the fifth civil Judge Maria Mercedes Portilla,  against journalists Juan Carlos Calderón and Christian Zurita. They also requested an appeal of a judgment that orderedan...

This morning citizens of Guayaquil and workers of newspaper EL UNIVERSO gathered in a pacific protest against the last decision of the Ecuadorian National Court, which rejected the appeal of this media in the trial brought by the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa for libel...

Penal Chamber judges of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym), Wilson Merino, Paul Iñiguez and Jorge Blum took an hour and forty minutes to ratify the sentences of the first and second ruling by condemning three newspaper directors to jail and paying a fine...

After hearing the ratification against El Universo Newspaper, it is hoped that the Human Rights Commission issues precautionary measures to stop the implementation of the sentence, condemning the newspaper managers (brothers Nicolas, Cesar and Carlos Perez) and former editor of...

Panama President, Ricardo Martinelli announced that he just gave asylum to Carlos Perez Barriga, Director of newspaper El Universo. The official announcement was made via his Twitter account. “I just gave asylum to journalist of newspaper El Universo, Carlos Perez Barriga,...