The union rejects the expressions made by the Attorney General, as well as any attempt to address the rulings.
After the expressions made by the prosecutor Diana Salazar regarding the cases of Carlos Luis Morales and Abdalá Bucaram, the Ecuadorian Association of Magistrates and Judges (AEMAJ), rejects them for discrediting the magistrates and generating confusion in the citizenry.
In a statement it is clarified that in a criminal proceeding pursuant to articles 520 and 529 of the Organic Comprehensive Criminal Code (COIP), if deemed necessary and have merit for that, it is the prosecutor who charges and motivatedly requests precautionary measures such as prison preventive, without that it can be carried out ex officio by the judge.
The association adds that the Constitution in its article 38 specifies that in the case of preventive detention, the elderly will be subjected to house arrest.
The Association states that courage is required to exercise the administration of justice where judicial independence and decision-making are intended to be restricted by media pressure.
The judges point out that the judicial decisions must be respected by the procedural parties and advises the Prosecutor’s Office to remember this point because it issues “a smear message to the judicial function.”
In this context, the EEAJ also rejects any attempt to address the rulings and reminds that the judges comply only with what the Constitution and the law say, in order to guarantee the procedural system and the rights of citizens.
Source: AEMAJ, social networks
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