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• Violent eviction of trade unionists of SITRAPETEN from Parque Central

  By Patrick Daniels on December 30, 2009 • ( 0 )

  On the 10th – which happens to be International Human Rights Day – and 11th December members of the trade union SITRAPETÉN were violently evicted by the National Civil Police (PNC) from the makeshift huts in which they had for… Read More ›

• In the Shadow of the Raid

  By kevodell on December 22, 2009 • ( 0 )

  On Monday 4th January, The Frontline Club is screening the film ‘In the Shadow of the Raid’. Viewing the trailer, this looks like a powerful indictment of US immigration policy. "On May 12, 2008, immigration officials stormed a kosher meatpacking… Read More ›

• Plan Sofia 82 is handed over

  By Patrick Daniels on December 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Translated from the Prensa Libre article by Olga López Ovando. The handing over of Plan Sofia in Guatemala earlier this month came shortly after expert testimonies in the genocide case were heard in Madrid by Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz. For more… Read More ›

• Universal Jurisdiction in the UK – why it matters

  By Patrick Daniels on December 20, 2009 • ( 0 )

  On the dome of the Old Bailey, England’s Central Criminal Court, stands the statue of Justice, with her sword and scales, above an inscription which exhorts us to “Defend the children of the poor and punish the wrongdoer.” There is… Read More ›

• Historic first sentence against former member of Guatemalan military for crime of forced disappearance

  By Patrick Daniels on December 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  On the evening of Thursday 3rd December, a court in Chiquimula made history by sentencing former army colonel Marco Antonio Sánchez Samayoa and three former military commissioners, José Domingo Ríos, Gabriel Álvarez Ramos and Salomón Maldonado Ríos to 40 years… Read More ›

• Documents prove that Ríos Montt ordered the indigenous genocide in Guatemala

  By kevodell on December 4, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Documentation that the Guatemalan army, under the Efraín Ríos Montt, carried out a campaign in the summer of 1982 deliberately aimed at massacring thousands of indigenous peasants, has just been presented as evidence to the Spanish National Court.  Kate Doyle,… Read More ›

• Awaiting sentence in forced disappearance case

  By Patrick Daniels on December 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

   It is anticipated that the judges’ verdict will be delivered in the very near future in the case of El Jute – the case of the forced disappearance of eight inhabitants of the rural community of the same name in… Read More ›

• Protest the murder of Fausto Leonel Otzín Poyón

  By Patrick Daniels on November 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Fausto Otzín was an indigenous human rights lawyer, and in his short and now truncated life had dedicated himself to seeking justice. He was found dumped in a ditch on October 18 this year having suffered multiple wounds and died… Read More ›

• Peace Brigades International Film Screening and AGM

  By Patrick Daniels on November 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  For those of you interested in accompaniment in Latin America you might be interested in PBI‘s forthcoming AGM at which they’ll be showing a film about their work in Colombia. The screening of the 15th anniversary film produced by the… Read More ›

• Video: Interview with Yuri Melini, Environmental Activist

  By Patrick Daniels on November 27, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Yuri Melini, Director of CALAS, is an environmental campaigner for many years in Guatemala. Here in this film by Nicolas Bergeron about when he suffered an attempt on his life. Video is in Spanish with French subtitles.  

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