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Short video that resumes the events on the sentence of El Universo Case. (AV)

In a summit of world leaders in the University of Columbia in United States, the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will speak next Friday about the press and democracy. According to the official website of the University, the event will be broadcasted live. The conference is...

Judge Paredes’ ruling was upheld today by the Council of the Judiciary ( in Guayaquil).  The sentence: $ 40 million and 3 years in prison for the managers of El Universo and their former opinion editor, Emilio Palacio. President Rafael Correa wrote in his Twitter account...

Lawyers from El Universo Newspaper, demanded Julio Sanchez, Judge of the Seventh Court of childhood and adolescence, the dismissal of the provincial head of the Transitional Council of the Judiciary, Mariella Davila and two associate judges of the Second Criminal Chamber of...

Tomorrow at 10:00 (GMT) the reinstatement of the hearing of El Universo case will be set at the 2nd Criminal Chamber of Guayas. The judges of the court will pass the sentence against Diario El Universo, their managers and opinion former director, Emilio Palacio. After the...

The date for the resolution on El Universo case has not been set by the Second Crime Chamber of Guayas. The Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and his defense attorneys expect that the three deputy judges of the Chamber give an answer to the appealing process on the next Thursday...

After nearly 12 hours of the hearing of President Rafael Correa’s lawsuit against El Universo newspaper it was suspended this Friday. In the first instance judge Freire said that the procedure was discontinued and they expected to re-install it on Thursday September 22 at...

This evening, Primo Diaz Garaycoa, the judge in charge of El Universo case presented his resignation to teh Second Criminal Chamber, which is the courtroom that handles de lawsuit filed by the Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa against newspaper El Universo. This change caused...

The hearing for El Universo case planned for today will be carried out as deputy judge Guillermo Freire will replace Judge Primo Diaz, who resigned yesterday to the Second Criminal Chamber of the Provincial Court of Guayas. Fernando Yávar, member of the Judicial Council of...

President Rafael Correa arrived today at 9:40 to the hearing of El Universo Case. Approximately 50 people from Alianza País also attended, including the communications secretary Fernando Alvarado and minister Doris Soliz. Only attorney Joffre Campaña, from the newspaper’s...