The team of lawyers at Jorge Glasformer vice president of Rafael Correa who was detained at the Mexican Embassy in Quito after having received diplomatic asylum, warned of a “imminent risk” of possible new suicide attempt to the rreceiving more than forty drugs a daysome of them psychiatric.
At a press conference, doctor Alejandro Barreto, who has been practicing medicine since 2022, Glas’ personal physician, denounced a series of alleged “inactions” by the Ecuadorian State regarding physical, emotional, mental and nutritional health of the former vice president, who, in his opinion, “they could push him to feel the need to do it again (the suicide attempt)”.
“It could be a kind of psychological torture,” said Barreto, who recalled that Glas has allegedly already attempted suicide with a drug overdose a few days after being detained in La Roca, Ecuador’s maximum security prison, after his arrest at the Mexican embassy.
The doctor assured that Glas suffers from severe depressionas well as a anxiety picturea product of “being locked in four two by three (six square meters) without sunlight.”
“It’s a desperate thing. Psychologically it’s devastating for anyone,” said Barreto, who said he had last seen him “quite decompensated and depressed, even at a loss for words.”There is even a worsening of his physique, as well as the mental side,” he added.
In this regard, he considered that Glas is overmedicated since the doctors who treat him cannot carry out “non-pharmacological therapy”, which in his opinion consists of changing his environment, which implies giving him back his freedom.
Thus, the Lawyers and the International Committee for the Freedom of Jorge Glas insisted that the Government of Ecuador must hand over the former vice president to Mexico or to a third country that respects the diplomatic asylum granted in April by then-Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
So far, none of the legal appeals by Glas’ team of lawyers have had any effect in the Ecuadorian courts, which have classified Glas’ detention as legal and not arbitrary.
Jorge Glas is living through chemical torture: lawyer
For its part, eBolivian lawyer Sacha Llorenti said on behalf of the International Committee for the Freedom of Jorge Glas, its “extreme concern for the health, life and physical integrity of former vice president“.
Responsibility for the life of Jorge Glas falls on the Ecuadorian State, and specifically on President Daniel Noboa, who authorized the assault on the embassy and the kidnapping of Jorge Glas.Sacha Llorenti.
“A kind of chemical torture would be applied. This cocktail of drugs has a high probability of induce it to the suicide“We demand that there be an impartial, complete and conclusive investigation,” he added.
For her part, lawyer Sonia Vera recalled that the precautionary measures granted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to Glas in 2019 are still in force.
“He lawfare It has been reiterated and systematic in the case of Jorge Glas and now it may cost him his life. We are facing a flagrant attack on the life of Jorge Glas. You are not allowed to have access to your internist and is being subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment“, Vera emphasized.
It is important that the international community does not witness what is happening to Jorge and takes urgent measures.Sonia Vera.
Glas, convicted and charged with corruption
On April 5th, Noboa ordered the police to enter the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest Glaswho had been granted diplomatic asylum by the López Obrador government, although he had an arrest warrant against him for a corruption case in which he is accused.
Glasswho denies the charges against him and He declares himself a politically persecuted personwho was one of the strong men of Correa’s government, also had to finish serving an eight-year prison sentence for two corruption convictions handed down in 2017 and 2020.
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While, Mexico and Ecuador have countersued at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague with mutual accusations of having contravened international conventions on diplomatic relations.