Ecuador: Fear for safety/Incommunicado detention/possible prisoners of conscience

Index Number: AMR 28/009/2002
Date Published: 17 July 2002
Categories: Americas, Ecuador

Luis Muñoz, David Conrado, Juan Pablo Barragán, Jose Luis Proaño, Alberto Saltos. Stalin Saltos, Ivon Ramos and Julia Butterfly. The eight environmentalists named above were detained without charge on 16 July 2002 in Quito, the capital. They are being held without charge, and Amnesty International fears that they may be at risk of torture or ill-treatment.