SWI swissinfo.ch has run a couple of pieces relating to the trial and subsequent sentencing of former Guatemala police chief, Erwin Sperisen, to 14 years in prison after being found guilty by a Geneva court of aiding and abetting the murder of seven prisoners in Pavón Prison in Guatemala in 2006.
You can read a brief piece on the sentencing, here, Ex-Guatemala police chief convicted by Swiss court of prisoner murders and a more detailed piece, including an interview with Sandino Asturias, head of the Centre for Guatemala Studies (El Centro de Estudios de Guatemala – CEG), here, Sperisen case in Switzerland a ‘legacy of the dirty war in Guatemala’.
Categories: Corruption, Guatemala, Human Rights, Justice, Violence
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