Ecuador: Fear for safety/death threats: Jesús Tranquilino Vélez Loor

Index Number: AMR 28/012/2005
Date Published: 26 April 2005
Categories: Americas, Ecuador

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Jesús Tranquilino Vélez Loor who was allegedly tortured in February and received death threats twice in April 2005. He has filed a complaint against the three private security guards who allegedly tortured him, and may have been threatened in an attempt to make him withdraw his complaint.