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Byron Lopez Castillo, Dr. Jorge Alvear Macias, and Leon Roldos Aguilera, attorneys that defend journalist Emilio Palacio, rejected the declarations made by the former deputy judge Enrique Pacheco. Last Saturday, the attorneys that defend El Universo case published an article...

The new National Court of Justice has a new president, Carlos Ramirez Romero, who was elected with 19 votes of 21 judges. Ramirez, from Loja, was president of the National Court since January 12, 2011. The National Court ended on Thursday a 18-month restructuring. The newly...

This Thursday the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa along with several members of the Transitional Council of the Judiciary (CJT for its Spanish acronym) and the international watcher Baltasar Garzon attended the ceremony of the 21 new magistrates that would rule the judicial...

The Assemblymen of PRE political party, Abdala Bucaram Pulley recently announced that he would criminally prosecute the judicial secretary of the presidency, Alexis Mera due to libel accusations. This demand occurred due to the statements made by Mera, who assured that the son of...

Enrique Pacheco, judge of the Second Division of the National Court of Justice talked, in a video posted on the government news agency Andes, about the health problem that did not allow him attend the hearing of EL UNIVERSO Newspaper. He said it was the intense pressure and...

The soon to be former president of Second Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym), Luis Quiroz, stated that he is willing to mediate between the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and the directors of El Universo newspaper. Last Tuesday,...

The cassation hearing date on case El Universo was set for Friday of February 10 at 09:00 (GMT) as one of the last actions of judge Luis Quiroz in his post as magistrate of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym). According to El Universo Newspaper, in the...

The Second Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice decided to resume in three weeks the appeal hearing to review the sentence against EL UNIVERSO Newspaper. Yesterday, the hearing was suspended due to the absence of Judge Enrique Pacheco, who was excused due to illness....

Carlos Perez Barriga, the director of newspaper El Universo announced that he is willing to sign an apology to the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, but with three commitments. During a press conference given in the newspaper, the director stated their conditions, “Your...

The most influential paper in the world, The New York Times condemned in one of their leading articles the trial against El Universo newspaper. The article with the title, “An Assault on Democracy” calls to all the democratic leaders of the hemisphere to pronounce themselves and...