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En junio de 2016, el Comité de Derechos Humanos de la O.N.U. falló a favor de los empresarios Isaías. Afirmó que se habían violado los derechos humanos de Roberto y William Isaías y que manifi estamente "se violó el debido proceso," haciendo caso omiso de sus derechos de apelación y otros. El Comité dictaminó que el gobierno del Ecuador restaure los derechos de Roberto y William Isaías y devuelva todos los activos arbitraria e injustamente incautados a toda la familia. Este libro recoge la historia de una reclamación legal, que puede inspirar a muchos otros afectados a demandar al gobierno del Ecuador por arbitrariedades y abusos parecidos.

Roberto and William Isaías are proud members the third generation of Ecuadorian Isaíases. Since 1912 when their grandfather Emilio Isaias left Lebanon at the age of 19 and established in Ecuador, his descendants have remained true to their core Lebanese values: hard work, vision, and the capacity to adapt to changing situations. These hardworking entrepreneurs have continued to grow their family businesses, initially in the textile industry and subsequently expanding to the industrial, telecommunications, commercial, agricultural, and mining sectors. For over eight years now, they and their families have been the victims of the fierce political persecution unleashed against them by President Rafael Correa. In an all-out effort to seize the leading television channels, media outlets, and prosperous companies owned by the Isaias family, the Ecuadorian president has brazenly manipulated the judicial and executive branches of the government. As part of this relentless and systematic persecution, the law has been retroactively applied, due process has been violated, the right to a defense has been effectively thwarted, guilt rather than innocence has been presumed, judgments have been issued unsupported by evidence, and the right to appeal has been denied, thereby rendering the Isaíses helpless at law. The U.N. Human Rights Committee ruled in favor of the Isaias on June 2016; it affirmed that Roberto and William Isaías's human rights were violated and that their right to appeal and have a due process was blatantly ignored.The Committee has ordered the government of Ecuador to make whole their rights and to return all of the family's seized assets.

According to the US Department of State's report on Human Rights Practices for 2015 in Ecuador: "The main human rights abuses were lack of independence in the judicial sector; [and] restrictions on freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association" (in addition to corruption). The report specifies that judges "reached decisions based on media influence or political and economic pressures in cases where the government expressed interest." It adds that, according to human rights lawyers, "the government also ordered judges to deny all 'protection action' legal motions that argued that the government had violated an individual's constitutional rights to free movement, due process, and equal treatment before the law." U.S. Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2015-Ecuador (2016), available at: http: //www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm?year=2015&dlid=253011.