Ecuador police arrest Indigenous leader amid protests over fuel p
Al Jazeera, 15 Jun 2022
The leader of Ecuador's largest indigenous organisation has been detained after he rallied against the government.
Leonidas Iza's lawyer says it is not clear what his client has actually been arrested for and has called his detention illegal.
Ecuador’s acute economic crisis, made much worse by the pandemic, has led to a sharp rise in prices, hunger and malnutrition.
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports.
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