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Weekend: Men implicated in assassination of presidential candidate killed in prison

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Men implicated in assassination of presidential candidate killed in prison

07/10/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Men implicated in assassination of presidential candidate killed in prison

The news prompted Ecuador's president to return home early from an overseas visit

The news prompted Ecuador's president to return home early from an overseas visit.

The authorities in Ecuador says six inmates killed in a jail on Friday had all been accused of involvement in the assassination of an anti-corruption presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio in August.  The news prompted the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, to return home from New York to Ecuador to convene an emergency security cabinet.

Also in the programme: United Nations investigators arrive in north-eastern Ukraine following a missile strike in the village of Hroza; and we speak to the American filmmaker Martin Scorsese ahead of the release of his latest picture Killers of the Flower Moon.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss this and more are the American journalist Charlotte Kilpatrick and Oliver McTernan who is co-founder of Forward Thinking, an organisation which focusses on conflict resolution in the Middle East and North Africa.

(File photo: Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio pictured at a rally before he was assassinated in August. Credit: Karen Toro/Reuters.)

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