Tag: Emilio Palacio

• Friday, August 31st 2012 - 00:42 UTC

  Ecuadorian columnist sentenced to jail and million dollars fine granted asylum in the US

  

  A newspaper columnist who fled Ecuador after he was sentenced to jail and ordered to pay millions of dollars in a libel case pushed by President Rafael Correa has been granted asylum in the United States, his lawyer said on Thursday.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:36 UTC

  Ecuadorian high court upholds ruling sentencing journalists to prison and fines

  

  An Ecuadorian appeals court has upheld criminal libel convictions and three-year prison sentences for three newspaper directors and a former editorialist over a column that called populist President Rafael Correa a dictator.