Ecuadorian tribunal deems arrest of former Vice President Glas illegal
Al Jazeera
But the three-member panel also upheld his ongoing imprisonment, arguing it could not ‘modify’ his sentence.
The defence team for former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas has hailed a decision declaring his arrest inside Mexico’s embassy in Quito illegal.
Still, on Friday, lawyer Sonia Vera Garcia pledged to appeal the ruling, which upheld her client’s continued detention.
“We thank the international community,” she wrote on the social media platform X. “Its support led to the detention being declared arbitrary, a step forward.”
“However, Jorge remains detained. We will appeal until we achieve his freedom.”
The ruling comes after Francisco Hidalgo — a member of Glas’s left-wing political party, Citizen Revolution — submitted a writ of habeas corpus earlier this week on the former vice president’s behalf, arguing he had been unlawfully detained.
