Guatemala Trials December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada The Future of War Crimes Prosecutions in Guatemala …complaints before the Attorney General’s Office. Of these, at least a dozen cases have a sentence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights finding the State of Guatemala responsible for…
Guatemala Trials August 20, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada Court Rejects Release Request of Convicted Military Officials in Molina Theissen Case …assault, forced disappearance, and crimes against humanity. He also argued that granting their release from prison represented an imminent flight risk. Reyes also cited the 2004 judgment of the Inter-American…
Guatemala Trials August 18, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada Convicted Military Officials in Molina Theissen Case Seek Release …the three men were convicted of international crimes, including forced disappearance, torture, and aggravated sexual assault. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights developed the “conventionality control” doctrine, which establishes the…
Guatemala Trials July 29, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada Former Special Forces Soldier Indicted in Dos Erres Massacre Case, Trial Set for November …courts have convicted six men—five ex Kaibil soldiers and one army official—for their responsibility in the Dos Erres massacre. A 2009 judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the State of Guatemala…
Guatemala Trials June 1, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada Deported Ex Kaibil Faces Charges in the Dos Erres Massacre Case …covered it up with dirt to conceal the evidence. Herrarte proceeded to read the names of the victims exhumed from the well. She noted that a 2009 judgment of the Inter-American Court…
Guatemala Trials April 17, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada In Guatemala, COVID-19 Puts Justice on Hold, Emboldening Convicted War Criminals to Seek Their Freedom …press release issued on March 31 by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), which makes a series of recommendations to member-states to guarantee the health and integrity of the…
Guatemala Trials February 28, 2020December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada Appeals Hearing in the Molina Theissen Case Suspended …proceedings,” he told IJ Monitor. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has urged the Guatemalan state to reform the amparo law to limit its abuse. Amparos are frequently used to…
Guatemala Trials November 18, 2019December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada Benedicto Lucas García, Accused of Genocide, Denies that the Guatemalan Army Engaged in Wrongdoing …him. He referred to Pamela Yates, whose interview of Lucas García is among the evidence presented by the prosecutors, and other journalists and researchers who he said interviewed him but…
Guatemala Trials September 5, 2019December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada In Defiance of Court Rulings, Guatemalan Congressional Leaders Push Amnesty Bill …the prohibitions of the Inter-American Court and the Constitutional Court?” He went on to urge his peers to denounce the rulings of the Inter-American Court and the Constitutional Court, arguing…
Guatemala Trials July 22, 2019April 27, 2021 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada Constitutional Court Orders Congress to Suspend Consideration of Amnesty Law Proposal …out on several different occasions, preventing a quorum, so that the bill could not be approved in a third reading. On March 12, 2019, the Inter-American Court ordered the State…
