Ecuador: Investigate television - Brownsville Herald

class=”dateline”> QUITO, Ecuador – The attorney general said Monday it will investigate all the edges around the police uprising of September 30, 2010, after President Rafael Correa denounced the weekend Teleamazonas and one of its reporters allegedly knew about the uprising.

the radio and television on Saturday, the president said that “Teleamazonas knew what was going to happen on September 30. (Journalist) Milton Perez on twitter yesterday tells Andrea Bernal, another journalist in Colombia, ‘estate careful because they will come days of intense, highly important in Ecuador’, anticipating what was going to happen on September 30. “

a television network, the government said on Monday that the channel had also arranged for coverage teams, hours before the police uprising.

Galo Chiriboga

prosecutor, told reporters, said “I’m meeting with the police team and researchers who take the issue of 30 S (September 30) and gather information on this very issue.”

asserted that “I have agreed with President (Correa) meet … in the afternoon, to discuss this and other issues.”

He added that the prosecution

“investigate all edges that have that offense”.

In the port city of Guayaquil, the Tenth Criminal Court, convicted of sabotage during the uprising of September 30 Mery Zamora, former president of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union state of the country . He was accused of encouraging high school students to take to the streets to protest against the government.

His lawyer, Juan Vizuete, immediately announced it would appeal such judgment, by which he may be liable to a penalty of 8-12 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $ 175, which is not yet defined .

On that date, police rioted in as Quito police headquarters to protest the elimination of wage.

Correa arrived at the scene to try to calm things down and entered the enclosure, where police physically and verbally assaulted him. The president took refuge in a nearby hospital, where he was rescued hours later by the military in the midst of a shooting that left several casualties.

The government has maintained that the situation was a coup and not a revolt, for which they have been charged dozens of police and others, many of them have been released after he failed to prove his guilt, while others remain in prison.

Teleamazonas

declined to comment.