Preferencias académicas de los estudiantes de la carrera de Derecho y su vinculación con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) a través del estudio de sentencias

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Abstract: On October 16, 2019, the Inter-American Commission on Rights submitted to the jurisdiction of the Court the case "Emilio Palacio Urrutia and others" against the Republic of Ecuador. According to what the Commission has indicated, the case is related to a series of human rights violations derived from the criminal proceeding promoted by the then President of Ecuador, Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (hereinafter, also "the then President" or "former President"), and which led to the conviction against the journalist Emilio Palacio Urrutia and the directors of the newspaper El Universo, Messrs. of high public interest regarding the events of political crisis that occurred in September 2010 in Ecuador, and the actions of former President Rafael Correa and other authorities in the context of said crisis." On November 24, 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in which it declared the international responsibility of the State of Ecuador for the violations of various rights. The Court indicated that the article "NO to lies", published by Mr. Palacio Urrutia regarding events that occurred in Ecuador on September 30, 2010, constituted an opinion article that referred to a matter of public interest, therefore it enjoyed special protection in view of its importance in the democratic debate. In this way, it warned that the conviction imposed for the crime of "serious slanderous insults against the authority", and the civil sanction imposed due to said sentence, constituted a violation of the freedom of expression of the victims of the case.