Ecuador: Human rights in jeopardy/Ill-treatment: Estalin Olimpo Coello Rosado

Index Number: AMR 28/001/1999
Date Published: 15 January 1999
Categories: Americas, Ecuador

Amnesty International is concerned that a 60-day state of emergency declared on 7 January 1999 in Ecuador's Province of Guayas, under which certain Constitutional rights have been suspended, could result in an increase in human rights violations by the security forces. One man, Estalin Olimpo Coello Rosado, has already been beaten by police after being accused of theft.