Pedro Nikken/CPJ Guest Blogger

Pedro Nikken is a prominent Venezuelan lawyer, president of the International Commission of Jurists, and former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Features & Analysis
El Universo staff members carry a mock coffin to protest the court ruling that upheld the verdict against their colleagues. (AFP/Camilo Pareja)

In Ecuador, a crushed and silenced democracy

The sentence against Ecuadoran newspaper El Universo, its opinion editor, Emilio Palacio Urrutia, and its three top executives, Carlos Eduardo Pérez Barriga, César Enrique Pérez Barriga, and Carlos Nicolás Pérez Lapentti, for supposed offenses against Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa in Palacio’s article “NO to lies,” is a worn-out manifestation of the perverse concept of public…

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