Leonidas Iza, president of Conaie, did not attend the Prosecutor’s Office. ‘We are not running,’ said the indigenous leader

Leonidas Iza, President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), Did not assist this Tuesday, October 26 at Attorney General of the State, in Quito.

That entity summoned him at 11:30 so that expand your free version, voluntary and without oath, within the prior investigation carried out by the alleged crime of kidnapping within the events that occurred two years ago.

During the days of protest in October 2019, a group of policemen and journalists He was held by indigenous people in the House of Ecuadorian Culture.

According to the subpoena, he was warned that in the event that do not appear It may be done through the public force.

Conaie handed over ten policemen whom he held for almost 10 hours in October 2019

For Conaie, this fiscal call is an activation of what it called judicial persecution against Iza, because he was summoned on the same day of the mobilization announced by social groups.

“In these two years after October 2019, we have gone to all the calls. We have demanded that truth and justice be made known to the world. It cannot be that the violence of (former Government Minister María Paula) Romo, (Lenín) Moreno and (former Defense Minister Oswaldo) Jarrín wants to charge the protesters ”, said Iza, in a concentration in Saquisilí, in the province of Cotopaxi.

Jaime Vargas gives version within the previous investigation for kidnapping that occurred in the protests of October 2019

He added that they have sent the corresponding justification to go to the Prosecutor’s Office the following week. In his Twitter account he described it as political pressure.

“We are not running”, assured the leader.