Ecuador: Further Information on Fear for Safety

Index Number: AMR 28/006/2004
Date Published: 2 March 2004
Categories: Americas, Ecuador

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has told the Ecuadorian government to protect Leonidas Iza, his family and members of the Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE), Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, of which he is the president. The government has ignored such instructions in the past, and Amnesty International remains gravely concerned for their safety.