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The director of newspaper Diario Hoy, Jaime Mantilla Anderson, was sentenced to three months of imprisonment and the payment of a $25 fine. The trial was performed by a demand imposed by Pedro Delgado Campaña in 2009 due to defamation. The Tenth Court of Criminal Guarantees...

This morning the Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos arrived to Quito to meet the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. After the formal greeting of the Armed Forces, Colombian President addressed the Nation in a brief statement. Santos added: “(…) I did not want to...

One day after Antonio Gagliardo, prosecutor of Guayas, responsive declaration of temporary judge Juan Paredes, the adviser of the President, Francisco Latorre, came to talk to Gagliardo. Latorre took the elevator up to the tenth floor of the Posecutor bulding, where the office of...

In his Saturday National TV broadcast, the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, said the registration in the Institute of Intellectual Property (IEPI) seeks to prevent the “perverted” use of the terms ‘30s‘ and ‘prohibido olvidar‘. “We...

Temporary judge Juan Paredes gave statements at the hearing held yesterday in the District Attorney within the process of preliminary investigation against him. There he admitted that a flash drive was used for the sentence against El Universo newspaper, on 20 July. According to...

Yesterday, December 15, Juan Carlos Solines spokesman of political movement ” Concertación”, presented to the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property (IEPI for its Spanish acronym), a challenge to stop the Ecuadorian Government that intends to trademark the...

This morning the temporary judge of the 15th Court of Criminal Guarantees of Guayas, Juan Paredes, testified before the District Attorney in the process of preliminary investigation against him for misrepresentation and prevarication filed by the court prosecutor of El Universo...

Vinicio Alvarado, secretary of the Administration took steps in the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property (IEPI for it Spanish acronym) in order to patent the phrase “Prohibido Olvidar” (forbidden forget) and the abbreviations “30S” and...

Last December 9th, the Coordinating Committee of Organizations of Press Freedom warned of a “progressive loss of fundamental rights” in Ecuador and presented a series of recommendations to the government to respect freedom of speech and press, such as the...

Ecuadorian former president, Abdala Bucaram, in exile in Panama, criticized through his twitter account, @abdalabucaram,  newspaper El Universo . He denied that he has made critical statements against the government of president Rafael Correa. “Look how perverse is El...