00:00In Ecuador just hours before a new hearing in the so-called Goliada case, the defense
00:04of Guayaquil's mayor, Aquiles Alvarez, denounced the deterioration of his health and violations
00:09of his rights in the maximum security prison.
00:12His lawyer, Romero Garcia, said that the mayor had lost around 26 kilos since his imprisonment
00:18and claimed that the conditions of his detention were affecting his physical well-being and
00:22his right to a defense undue process.
00:24He also expressed concern about the sanitary conditions of the facility after learning
00:29of reports of cases of tuberculosis.
00:31The defense has submitted documents to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for it to examine
00:37the allegations related to the official's detention.
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