Jorge Glas is on hunger strike in La Roca prison in Guayaquil, where he remains detained after the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito last Friday. His lawyer, Sonia Vera, who is part of his international defense team, spoke with Glas by video call four days after his arrest.
“They took me out of the car, tortured, with my thumbs tied behind my back, like in the time of the dictatorship,” says Glas. Glas has a hearing scheduled before the judges on April 11, to discuss the habeas corpus request presented by his defense, arguing that the assault was illegal and that his client obtained political asylum in Mexico. Glas, like Rafael Correa, considers himself a politically persecuted victim of lawfare, as the instrumentalization of justice to harass opponents is known. Seven other people who held public positions during the Government of Correa are taking refuge in Mexico, three of them also have corruption investigations pending in the Ecuadorian justice system.