Guatemala

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Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garcia and others

03.05.2023

Guatemala

Context Former Guatemalan officials sent to trial in Belgium for killings and enforced disappearance of Belgian...

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Swiss Federal Court upholds Erwin Sperisen's conviction

29.11.2019

Switzerland

On 28 November 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (FSC) upheld Erwin Sperisen's sentence to 15 years in prison. In Ap...

News releases

Fresh accusations made against Erwin Sperisen in Guatemala

09.11.2018

Guatemala

The former head of the Guatemalan National Civil Police, who has just appealed to the Federal Court against his 15-year...

Opinions

Prosecutors on the Front Line: A Q&A with Terry Beitner of the Canadian War Crimes Unit

20.12.2018

Canada

In partnership with the Philip Kirsch Institute and the Canadian Centre for International Justice. Joseph Rikhof is...

News

Guatemala: the justice system at risk

19.12.2018

Guatemala

On August 31, President Jimmy Morales decided not to renew the mandate of the International Commission against Impunity...

News releases

Former Guatemalan chief of police Erwin Sperisen guilty of participating in extrajudici...

27.04.2018

Guatemala

In its ruling of 27 April 2018, the Geneva Court of justice ruled that Erwin Sperisen was an accomplice in the execution...

News

Sperisen trial: new hearings before the Geneva Court of Justice

13.04.2018

Switzerland

The third trial of Erwin Sperisen will open on Monday 16 April 2018 in Geneva. TRIAL International is confident it will...

News releases

Sperisen case: Federal Tribunal confirms extrajudiciary executions

18.07.2017

Switzerland

Geneva, 12 July 2017. Today, the Federal Tribunal (FT) referred the case to Genevan tribunals without ruling on the guil...

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Carlos Vielmann Montes

10.07.2019

Guatemala

Facts Carlos Vielmann Montes was born in 1956. He was a Guatemalan politician and Minister of the Interior of Guatemala...

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Carlos Vielman’s acquittal a worrying signal

12.09.2019

Guatemala

Carlos Vielman, Guatemala’s former Minister of Interior, has been acquitted. He has stood trial in January and February...

News

Erwin Sperisen’s direct superior risks 160 years’ imprisonment

10.01.2017

Guatemala

Eighteen months after Erwin Sperisen received a life sentence for the murder of ten prisoners, his hierarchic superior i...

Cases

Erwin Sperisen

07.04.2021

Guatemala

While Erwin Sperisen was Chief of the National Civil Police (PNC) in Guatemala, numerous crimes were committed by the se...

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