Ecuador: Death Threats/Fear for safety

Index Number: AMR 28/008/2002
Date Published: 5 June 2002
Categories: Americas, Ecuador

Senior members of the opposition party Movimiento Popular Democrático (MPD), Democratic Popular Movement, are receiving deaths threats, and Amnesty International believes they are in danger. The party has been very critical of the government, and two of its parliamentarians were shot dead in 1999 in unclear circumstances.