Until now, state censorship targeted mostly individual dissidents. Since June, however, Decree 016 forbids social organizations to disagree with the government. An Ecuadorian delegation of human rights leaders is travelling to Washington DC on October 28 to testify on the criminalization of social protest at the 149th Session of Public Hearings at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Ecuador’s legal crackdown against all forms of political dissidence is so systematic that lawfare, the abuse of law as a weapon of war, is becoming a new style of governance. It unveils a government that is less popular than it claims and that feels threatened by the escalating contestation of civil society.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:34:06 +0000
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