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HRW urges Guatemala courts to end due process delays
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday urged Guatemalan courts to end unjustifiable delays in high-profile criminal cases. For the past decade, the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) , in partnership with the Attorney Gene (More)
Guatemala high court refuses to lift lawmaker's immunity for alleged human rights violations
The Supreme Court of Guatemala on Thursday rejected a request to strip a member of congress of his immunity from prosecution for allegedly overseeing grave human rights violations during the country's civil war. Edgar Justino Ovalle is a top adviser (More)
Guatemala prosecutors arrest 17 accused of civil war abuses
Guatemalan prosecutors arrested 17 former military and government officials on Wednesday on charges of committing massacres and other human rights abuses during the Guatemalan civil war. Government security forces have been blamed for the vast major (More)
UN rights experts: Guatemala must stop delaying dictator's genocide trial
Guatemalan judicial authorities must prevent further "obstruction of justice" in the ongoing genocide trial against the former dictator and the former chief of intelliegence, according to a statement by two experts from the UN Office of the High Co (More)
Guatemala court: Former dictator can be tried, not sentenced
A Guatemalan court on Wednesday held that former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt can stand for trial for genocide and crimes against humanity but cannot be sentenced because he suffers from dementia. The court held that a special closed trial [Diario de (More)
Guatemala court orders Rios Montt competency evaluation
A Guatemalan court on Tuesday ordered former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to undergo competency tests to determine whether he is fit to stand trial for his alleged role in the torture, rape and murder of 1,771 indigenous people between 1982 and 1983 (More)
Former Guatemala police official convicted in 1980 Spanish embassy siege
A Guatemalan court on Monday convicted a former police official for the killings of 37 people when the Spanish Embassy burned down during the country's civil conflict in 1980. Pedro Garcia Arredondo, a former special investigations chief for the Six (More)
Guatemala court postpones ex-dictator's genocide retrial
The retrial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity was delayed on Monday. Two of the three judges on the panel accepted the defense's motion that the third judge, Judge Jeannette Valdez, s (More)
Guatemala lawmakers approve resolution denying genocide during civil war
The Congress of the Republic of Guatemala on Tuesday approved a non-binding resolution denying any existence of genocide during the civil war lasting from 1960-1996. The resolution calls for national reconciliation and states: "It is legally impos (More)
Guatemala court to restart genocide trial of former dictator in January 2015
The genocide trial for former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will continue in January 2015, according to a Guatemalan court official. In May Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide, torture and rape of 1,771 indigenous Ixil Mayans during (More)
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