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Prosecutors Seek 35-Year Prison Sentences for Military Personnel Accused of the Disappearance and Death of Minors in Ecuador

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QUITO (AP) — Ecuador's Public Prosecutor's Office on Monday requested nearly 35 years in prison for a group of soldiers accused of the forced disappearance and death of four minors in the port city of Guayaquil. In a closing arguments hearing, prosecutor Christian Fárez demanded that the sentence consider the mistreatment, violence, and torture suffered by the victims as aggravating factors, based on evidence presented during the trial. He also …

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QUITO (AP) — Ecuador's Public Prosecutor's Office on Monday requested nearly 35 years in prison for a group of soldiers accused of the forced disappearance and death of four minors in the port city of Guayaquil. In a closing arguments hearing, prosecutor Christian Fárez demanded that the sentence consider the mistreatment, violence, and torture suffered by the victims as aggravating factors, based on evidence presented during the trial. He also …

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The Regional Human Rights Advisory Foundation (Inredh) and relatives accuse the Ecuadorian State of concealing information and denying the enforced disappearance of four young people from the Malvinas.

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The final stage of the trial for the enforced disappearance of minors from Las Malvinas was resumed on the morning of Monday, 8 December, the date of one year ' s detention of minors.

Latin American Summary, December 8, 2025. Family members of the victims and organizations of DD.H.H. report that they are not involved in identifying, that information has been hidden and that the authorities have not yet offered public apologies. Photo: EFE One year has passed since the so-called Las Malvinas case, which has provoked outrage throughout Ecuador in the middle of the [...] La entrada Ecuador. They demand 34 years in prison for 17 …

A year of horror. A year of torture. Monday, December 8, 2025, marks one year of the arbitrary detention of the brothers Joshua and Ismael Arroyo, Nehemías Arboleda and Steven Medina: the four children of Las Malvinas. The boys, after playing football in Coviem Park, south of Guayaquil, were on their way home when around 20:40 that Sunday, December 8, 2024, were intercepted and beaten by a picket of 16 uniformed members of the Ecuadorian Air For…

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Plan V broke the news in on Monday, December 8, 2025.
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