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• GHRC alert condemning the violence against Indigenous Q’eqchi community

  By kevodell on December 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on December 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• La Puya – A Mining Lawsuit In Guatemala Shows How Trade Courts Put Locals Last

  By kevodell on December 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  A U.S. mining company is suing Guatemala over a shuttered project. The state relied on affected communities to mount a legal defense, but now it’s trying to bypass them to open the mine. Ana Sandoval writes in Foreign Policy In… Read More ›

• The Distortion of Justice in Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on December 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on November 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  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

  By kevodell on November 26, 2022 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• We Condemn The Kidnapping And Militarisation Of The Communities In The Sierra De Las Minas

  By kevodell on November 26, 2022 • ( 0 )

  UDEFEGUA, on behalf of the the Human Rights Convergence (la Convergencia por los Derechos Humanos), tweeted a statement condemning the militarisation of communities in the Sierra de las Minas. Any errors in translation are mine. You can read the tweet… Read More ›

• Death Squad Dossier Judge Recounts His Fearful Months before Exile

  By kevodell on November 26, 2022 • ( 0 )

  “There’s a strong terror taking hold in Guatemala” Julie López writes in El Faro English about the terrorism currently being directed against independent members of the Guatemala judiciary, and especially, against judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez, who was recently forced into… Read More ›

• Carlos Ernesto Choc Chub – Criminalised For Defending Rights

  By kevodell on November 22, 2022 • ( 1 )

  Criminalisation, and the use of ‘lawfare’, is being used increasingly against individuals, and groups, seeking to defend human rights in Guatemala. This is especially true with regard to those working to protect the environment. This can be seen through a… Read More ›

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