Mera exhorts Cléver Jimenez to apologize to Correa

“If he apologizes to the Government for the barbarity he made, I will personally ask the President to consider his apology … I would do everything possible for the President to do so,” said Alexis Mera, Legal Secretary of the Presidency during an interview at a local media.

This, regarding to Assemblyman Cléver Jimenez, sentenced to 18 months in prison for insulting President Rafael Correa after accusing him of genocidal by the events occured on September 30, 2010, the day of the police revolt.

Mera stressed that the arrest order against the Assemblyman continues ,and in case of obtaining his whereabouts, the authorities will be able to do the raid.

He also reiterated that the Government will ignore the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), which granted precautionary measures and suspended sentences to those involved in the case.