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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Alexandra Valencia

UNBELIEVABLE: Human rights concerns grow over ecuador prison riots un officials - The Untold Story

FILE PHOTO: Relatives of inmates push fences while clashing with police as they try to find out if their loved ones were among the dead following a riot at the Cotopaxi No 1 penitentiary, in Latacunga, Ecuador October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Karen Toro/File Photo

United Nations human rights officials are concerned about Ecuador's prison violence crisis, they said on Thursday, after yet another riot at a Guayaquil jail left at least 13 inmates dead and more than 20 prisoners and police injured.

Violence has plagued Ecuador's prison system since early 2021, with close to 400 killed in clashes since February last year, according to the Andean country's SNAI prison authority.

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