San Jose, Costa Rica, December 1, 2022.- Today the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment on the Case of Aroca Palma et al. v. Ecuador, holding the Republic of Ecuador internationally responsible for the 2001 extrajudicial execution of Joffre Antonio Aroca Palma, during an operation by police officers who, after detaining the victim, took him to an open field in the stadium of the city of Guayaquil, where he died of a gunshot wound.