Europe is Following “El Universo” Case
The European Union has been following the case of the newspaper “El Universo” and is waiting for Quito’s Supreme Court decision to take action, informed the head of EU diplomacy, Catherine Ashton.
“The facts behind this case are cause for concern” because it refers to “freedom of expression,” said Ashton before the full Parliament.
Ashton asked to await the decision of the Court of Justice (Supreme) of Ecuador, and said she expected “the highest judicial standards” in this process. If the court rejects the verdict of two lower courts ruled in favor of the appeal of the newspaper, “it will have reached a solution through the judicial process,” but otherwise there are “obligations” in the bilateral EU-Ecuador “and we would have to see what action we take, ” she said.
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