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The vehicle explosion took place outside the Women's and Human Rights Ministry on Wednesday night in Quito. A second blast outside the prison ministry's building rocked the city early on Thursday.
Overcrowding in Latin America's prisons has been part of the region's background noise for decades. The area has ...
The latest prison massacre on April 3, 2022 in the El Turi prison in the southern Ecuadorian city of Cuenca resulted in the deaths of 20 people. Ten people were also injured and taken to hospitals, at least five of them in critical condition. Ecuadorian authorities blamed the violence on the leaders of criminal gangs vying for control of prisons.
SANTO DOMINGO DE LOS COLORADOS (ECUADOR) - Ecuadoran police on Tuesday said 200 convicts who escaped following a deadly prison riot have been recaptured in 24 hours, with 20 still at large.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged the Ecuadorian Government of President Guillermo Lasso to take concrete measures to bring to an end the ongoing streak of prison massacres, following Monday's riot at a penitentiary which resulted in 44 inmates killed.