Ecuador court sentences 11 air force troops over disappearance of four boys
Long sentences in case of Afro-Ecuadorian ‘Guayaquil Four’ focuses attention on president’s crackdown on crimeA court in Ecuador has sentenced 11 air force personnel to decades in prison over the forced disappearance” of four Afro-Ecuadorian boys aged between 11 and 15 during security...
<p>Long sentences in case of Afro-Ecuadorian ‘Guayaquil Four’ focuses attention on president’s crackdown on crime</p><p>A court in Ecuador has sentenced 11 air force personnel to decades in prison over the forced disappearance” of four Afro-Ecuadorian boys aged between 11 and 15 during security operations in the country’s largest city last year.</p><p>The case of the “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/12/we-are-shattered-afro-ecuadorians-mourn-four-boys-found-dead-after-encounter-with-military">Guayaquil Four</a>” is widely seen as the starkest example of human rights abuses under the iron-fist security policy pursued by the rightwing president, Daniel Noboa, who placed the armed forces at the centre of the fight against drug trafficking.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/ecuador-guayaquil-four-military-sentenced">Continue reading...</a>
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