An Medical Report concludes that former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas requires immediate hospitalization due to severe health deterioration and inhumane prison conditions.
An Integral Medical Assessment Report, issued on December 22 in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, has categorically concluded that former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas requires immediate, non-deferrable hospitalization.
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Despite having entire completed his accumulated sentences in the Odebrecht and Bribery cases on October 2, 2025, Glas remains deprived of liberty under the “Reconstruction of Manabi” case. His defense argues that this detention is arbitrary, as the written ruling of the first instance has not yet been delivered, preventing any appeal.
In response to this situation, Glas’s defense filed a corrective habeas corpus on December 22, arguing that his current detention constitutes an arbitrary measure and that the prison conditions pose an immediate vital risk. “A corrective habeas corpus was requested. Because what is happening is no longer ‘serving a sentence’: it is creating conditions to let him die”, affirmed his lawyer Sonia Vera Garcia.
Alarming Health Conditions Revealed
The medical report, issued within the framework of precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and provisional measures from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, details a severe clinical picture for Glas. This includes severe physical deterioration, malnutrition, anemia, instability when standing, deficient medication control, and restricted access to potable water.
“The report begins to describe what is happening to him; the first thing that appears -the most basic, the most outrageous- is this: water. Restriction for hydration and water with characteristics not compatible with drinking water (turbidity, discoloration, bad taste)”, highlighted his lawyer.
The report also registers marked loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia/probable malnutrition), extreme weakness, and recurrent hunger. It also points to the administration of medications by non-healthcare personnel, inadequate storage, and extreme polypharmacy, with risks of sedation, hypotension, delirium, and falls.
El 2 de octubre de 2025, Jorge Glas cumplió el 100% de su condena acumulada por los casos Odebrecht y Sobornos.
Y aun así —siendo inocente— sigue preso.
¿Con qué lo sostienen? Con un expediente fabricado: el caso “Reconstrucción de Manabí”, sentenciado en primera instancia, pero…— Sonia Gabriela Vera García (@sonicorver) December 23, 2025
Text reads: “On October 2, 2025, Jorge Glas served 100% of his sentence accumulated for the Odebrecht and Sobornos cases. And yet, being innocent, he is still in prison. With what do you hold it? With a fabricated file: the case “Reconstruction of Manabí”, sentenced in first instance, but without being notified of the written sentence. In other words: they keep him locked up with a judgment that we can’t even appeal…”
Sonia Vera Garcia, who recently met with Glas, described his health state as alarming. “I found him more weakened, more distressed, more resigned. That resignation is the most dangerous sign: when someone stops fighting, the body begins to lose”, she said. Furthermore, she denounced the lack of confidentiality in the weekly remote visits via Zoom with his international defense team, which, she stated, “is not defense, it is surveillance.”
Legal Battle Against Arbitrary Detention
Additionally, the prison environment is under construction, with persistent dust and the absence of a minimal medical area, which makes it “incompatible with clinical stabilization.” The medical assessment itself was conducted without a stretcher, without adequate clinical space, and with a permanent police presence. According to the defense, “this is not medical attention: it is control.”
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The defense insists that maintaining Glas in these conditions constitutes cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and demand urgent hospitalization and full confidentiality with his defense team, at the same time that political leaders calls for urgent protection measures for Glas.
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