Human rights defender Dr Germán Antonio Ramírez Herrera was assassinated on 6 July 2010 in the Las Américas neighbourhood of the Quevedo district in the province of Los Ríos. Dr Ramírez Herrera was a forensic doctor in the Prison of Quevedo. He had documented and...

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that human rights defender, Mr José Salustino Gutama Paucar, was arbitrarily detained on 7 May 2009 before being released later that morning, and Mr Vicente Zhunio Samaniego and Mr Wilmar Fernando Mejía Reinoso have...