Ecuador - public whipping of male and female offenders

A 3-minute local TV item (in Spanish) from Ecuador shows several offenders being stripped, whipped and humiliated in a public display of community punishment. The proceedings appear to be quite rough-and-ready, without much formal ceremony or standardised modus operandi.

There is no JCP in official Ecuadorean law but, rather as in Guatemala, the judicial system allows indigenous communities not served by police forces to apply vigilante justice as a form of traditional law, and public humiliation and beatings are reportedly common in remote areas.

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