The body will hold its virtual session period from November 1 to 28. He plans to deliberate eight sentences.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I / A Court HR) announced this Thursday, October 28, that it will hold its 145th Ordinary Period of Sessions from November 1 to 28, in which it plans to deliberate eight judgments; among them is the Emilio Palacio Urrutia et al. Case (No. 13,015) against the State of Ecuador, also known as the EL UNIVERSO Case.
The Court, which will hold virtual sessions, maintains that, based on the facts that occurred in the case, “various violations and setbacks were observed, as well as government repression, affecting the free exercise of freedom of expression,” according to the proven context. by the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The Inter-American Court summarizes the case “in an alleged series of human rights violations derived from the criminal process allegedly promoted by former President Rafael Correa against the journalist Emilio Palacio Urrutia and the directors of the newspaper El UNIVERSO, Carlos Nicolás Pérez Lapentti, César Enrique Pérez Barriga and Carlos Eduardo Pérez Barriga ”.
The publication of an opinion article on a matter of high public interest, regarding the events of political crisis that occurred in September 2010 in Ecuador and the actions of former President Rafael Correa and other authorities in the framework of said crisis, was the reason.
In 2011, the Ecuadorian judicial system ruled in first and second instance in favor of Correa, who sued Palacio for insults for his article ‘No a las mentiras’ (published on February 6, 2011) and the directors of EL UNIVERSO as authors adjuvants. The published text made reference to the police revolt of 30-S.
The sentence for the defendants was three years in prison and the payment of a total of $ 40 million.
The Inter-American Court announced in its statement that, in the Case of Palacio Urrutia et al. V. Ecuador, Judge Patricio Pazmiño Freire will not participate in the deliberation of the sentence because he is of Ecuadorian nationality, thus complying with the provisions of Article 19 of the Rules of the Court.
In addition to the judgment of the Ecuadorian case, the Inter-American Court will deliberate on seven other cases: Case of Manuela et al. V. El Salvador, Case of the Los Josefinos Village Massacre v. Guatemala, Case of the Members and Militants of the Patriotic Union v. Colombia, Professors from Chañaral and other Municipalities vs. Chile, Case of Maidanik et al. V. Uruguay, Case of Extra-workers of the Judicial Organ v. Guatemala and the Case of the Relatives of Digna Ochoa and Plácido v. Mexico. (I)
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