A special commission of members of the leading opposition political party, the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) traveled to Washington, D. C. to meet with regional human rights organizations. A press release from the PRM says they are concerned with the evident signs of the deterioration of the judicial system in the country over the past few years. The commission is meeting with representatives of the Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Foundation, Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) and Interamerican Dialogue (IAD).
According to the leaders, “the greatest evidence of the deterioration of justice in the country is the absolutely irregular oversight that has been given to the so-called Odebrecht case, which, according to the commission, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has turned into a process with clear political motives, which far from imposing true justice, only seeks to intimidate and bully key leaders of the opposition.”
Members of the commission are PRM delegate to the Central Electoral Board Orlando Jorge Mera; legal director Sigmund Freud and Manuel Conde, who is one of the defending lawyers of former senator Jesus (Chu) Vasquez.
As part of the visit to Washington, meetings were also arranged with Jean Michel Arrighi, secretary of legal affairs of the Organization of American States; Gabriel Bidegaín, advisor to secretary general Luis Almagro and with Roger Noriega, former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.
15 November 2018
