The visit will run until Friday and includes a tour of four prisons in the cities of Quito, Guayaquil and Latacunga.
The delegation, headed by Stuardo Ralon, rapporteur for persons deprived of liberty of the agency, is expected to meet with the president Guillermo Lasso, as well as with survivors of the prison massacres and their families.
“We will listen to victims, defenders and authorities,” wrote Tania Reneaum, executive secretary of the IACHR and part of the delegation, on the same social network.
The IACHR announced its visit to Ecuador after the latest massacre at the penitentiary Guayas 1, where 62 people died when inmates from one pavilion entered another to kill members of a rival gang using firearms, explosives and machetes.
In that same prison, on September 29, 119 prisoners died in another confrontation. This massacre is considered the worst in Ecuador and one of the largest in Latin America.
Ecuador faces a problem of violence and an overcrowding of 30% in the country’s prisons. The prisons have a capacity of about 30,000 people. However, there are about 39,000 prisoners, 15,000 of them without a sentence.
On Monday, the government extended the state of exception within the prison system for another 30 days, which allows it to mobilize the Police and the Armed Forces to reinforce control in prisons.
Source From: Ambito
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