The International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) have noted the sentencing of Virginia Laparra to a four year jail term, further undermining the fight against corruption in Guatemala, the corruption being carried out by the business and military elites, as… Read More ›
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Anti-Mining Networks Support Land Defense Movements in Central America
In Guatemala and Honduras, regional anti-mining networks have become key players in struggles to combat extractivism and the criminalization of activists. Giada Ferrucci and Pedro Cabezas write in NACLA on extractivism and resistance in Central America, focussing on Guatemala and… Read More ›
TrialWatch to Monitor Guatemalan Journalist’s Trial
The Clooney Foundation for Justice has posted a piece regarding the trial of José Rubén Zamora, another example of the state criminalising someone seeking to shine a light on corruption within the Guatemala system. This is as part of their… Read More ›
FONGI Denounces Use Of Excessive Force In Chapín Abajo
GHRC writes, ‘In the early morning of December 6, hundreds of Guatemalan police and military forces attacked the Q’eqchi’ community of Chapín Abajo in El Estor, Izabal. The group arrived via boat, working alongside what witnesses have reported as local… Read More ›
GHRC alert condemning the violence against Indigenous Q’eqchi community
GHRC recently issued an alert condemning the violence perpetrated by State security forces against the Indigenous Q’eqchi community in Chapin Abajo, El Estor. Read the full statement above.
International Organisations Denounce Serious Setbacks in ‘Diario Militar’ Case
International organisations recently issued a statement denouncing decisions made regarding the Diario Militar case, or ‘Death Squad Diary’ case, which seek to shut down the case contrary to law and violating the right of families to a prompt and fulfilled… Read More ›
The Distortion of Justice in Guatemala
A sham trial against a former anti-corruption prosecutor gets underway, while a judge gives an alleged war criminal a “get out of jail free” card. Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada write in WOLA about justice in Guatemala today. While a… Read More ›
Amnesty International demands immediate and unconditional release of prisoner of conscience Virginia Laparra
In response to the continued criminalisation of Virginia Laparra, Amnesty International published an item in her support as a ‘prisoner of conscience’. Former prosecutor Virginia Laparra, who was head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity (FECI) in Quetzaltenango, is… Read More ›
The judge, the prosecutor and the journalist
Marielos Monzón wrote an Opinion piece in Prensa Libre about the state, and judiciary, capture carried out by ‘The Pact of the Corrupt’ in Guatemala, through the lens of what is being done to Virginia Laparra, Miguel Ángel Gálvez, and… Read More ›
Guatemala: UN expert condemns targeting of prosecutor and judge
The Office Of The High Commissioner For Human Rights (OHCHR) posted a statement from the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, urging Guatemalan authorities to take immediate action to ensure the safety of former… Read More ›
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