Guatemala

On November 28, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm at the hearing of review of alternative measures of Toribio Acevedo Ramirez in the #MilitaryDiaryCase. Preventive detention was revoked and house arrest was ordered with the ability to commute in the municipalities of Zacapa, Guatemala and San Lucas Read more…

On November 28, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies. Today we visited Jorge Coc and Marcelino Xol, criminalized defenders of the land and prisoners at the Coban Preventive Detention Center.” In their December 2021 monthly update, PBI-Guatemala explained: “Jorge Coc Coc and Marcelino Xol Cucul [are] human rights defenders and community leaders Read more…

On November 24, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm in the intermediate stage hearing of the judicial process against Cristobal Pop, president of the fishermen’s union [of El Estor, Izabal], and the journalist Carlos Ernesto Choc, which has been suspended again.” Both Pop and Choc are Maya Read more…

On November 21, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Bufete Jurídico de Derechos Humanos [Human Rights Law Firm] and the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya at a ceremony to present the representatives for consultation to their ancestors.” On March 2, 2012, residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc Read more…

On November 15, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies the members of the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu [CCR] to the book signing but the book has not yet arrived and it is the second time it hasn’t been. It represents a waste of time and money for criminalized people.” The criminalized Read more…

On November 6, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm and the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya at a joint analysis meeting of the current situation.” On March 2, 2012, residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc – an area known as La Puya, just Read more…

On October 27, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the UVOC [Verapaz Union of Campesino Organizations] in a sentence notification in La Tinta.” UVOC has 367 affiliated communities (about 50,000 families); 98 per cent of which are Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’, Poqomchi’ and Achi.” PBI-Guatemala has been accompanying UVOC since 2005.

On October 26, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies UVOC [Verapaz Union of Campesino Organizations] at the hearing of notification of the acquittal for David Maxena.” On October 18, UVOC posted on Facebook: “#URGENT Community is declared acquitted of the charge of aggravated usurpation. This is the Mayan Poqomchi, former political prisoner Read more…

On October 23, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya and the Human Rights Law Firm to a meeting on the ratification of the incumbent and substitute representatives of the San Jose Nacahuil community, for the pre-consultation and consultation about the presence of the mine in the Read more…