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Ecuador: Human rights defenders Mr Manuel Peláez and Ms Rosario López summoned by police
2011/05/6

On 2 May 2011 human rights defenders Mr Manuel Peláez and Ms Rosario López were summoned to the police station of Limón, in the province of Morona Santiago, Ecuador. Manuel Peláez and Rosaria López are respectively director and member of the Associación Campesinos...

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Ecuador: Killing of human rights defender and forensic expert Dr Germán Antonio Ramírez Herrera and fear for safety of colleagues
2010/07/14

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...

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Ecuador: Threats and intimidation against human rights defender Ms Rosío Pérez and El Frente de Mujeres Defensoras de la Pachamama
2010/05/5

On 27 April 2010, human rights defenders in El Frente de Mujeres Defensoras de la Pachamama (Women Defenders of Mother Earth) in the parish of Molleturo in Cuenca, Ecuador, including the organisation's president, Ms Rosío Pérez, were threatened and intimidated in...

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Ecuador: Arbitrary detention of José Paucar and threats against Vicente Zhunio Samaniego and Wilmar Reinoso
2009/05/13

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...

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Ecuador: Attack on human rights defender, Ms Rosa Etelvina Misacango Chuñir
2009/04/28

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports of an attack on human rights defender, Ms Rosa Etelvina Misacango Chuñir on 22 April 2009. Rosa Etelvina Misacango Chuñir is a member of the Frente de Mujeres Defensoras de la Pachamama (Women Defenders of the...

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