A deputy for the indigenous political party Pachakutik, Cléver Jiménez, and an investigative journalist, Fernando Villavicencio, came out of hiding on 24 March after a judge on the national court of justice (CNJ) announced the expiry of the statute of limitations for their one-year sentence for defaming President Rafael Correa. There is no suggestion, however, that Correa’s zeal for pursuing charges against critics is flagging. A week earlier, on 17 March, Ecuador’s pre-eminent cartoonist Xavier ‘Bonil’ Bonilla, lamented that “even humour is a reason for persecution,” during a hearing on the ‘Situation of Freedom of Expression in Ecuador’ in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR).End of preview - This article contains approximately 665 words.
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