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Erwin Sperisen sentenced on appeal

13.09.2024
Globe Guatemala
(Geneva, 12 september 2024) - A Geneva court has upheld on appeal the conviction of Erwin Sperisen, former head of the G...
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Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review: Highlights in 2023

16.04.2024
Globe Argentina
TRIAL International, in collaboration with Civitas Maxima, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), the European...
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Swiss Federal Court upholds Erwin Sperisen's conviction

29.11.2019
Globe Switzerland
On 28 November 2019, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (FSC) upheld Erwin Sperisen's sentence to 15 years in prison. In Ap...
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Fresh accusations made against Erwin Sperisen in Guatemala

09.11.2018
Globe Guatemala
The former head of the Guatemalan National Civil Police, who has just appealed to the Federal Court against his 15-year...
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Prosecutors on the Front Line: A Q&A with Terry Beitner of the Canadian War Crimes Unit

20.12.2018
Globe Canada
In partnership with the Philip Kirsch Institute and the Canadian Centre for International Justice. Joseph Rikhof is...
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Guatemala: the justice system at risk

19.12.2018
Globe Guatemala
On August 31, President Jimmy Morales decided not to renew the mandate of the International Commission against Impunity...
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Former Guatemalan chief of police Erwin Sperisen guilty of participating in extrajudici...

27.04.2018
Globe Guatemala
In its ruling of 27 April 2018, the Geneva Court of justice ruled that Erwin Sperisen was an accomplice in the execution...
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Sperisen trial: new hearings before the Geneva Court of Justice

13.04.2018
Globe Switzerland
The third trial of Erwin Sperisen will open on Monday 16 April 2018 in Geneva. TRIAL International is confident it will...
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Sperisen case: Federal Tribunal confirms extrajudiciary executions

18.07.2017
Globe 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 Vielman’s acquittal a worrying signal

12.09.2019
Globe Guatemala
Carlos Vielman, Guatemala’s former Minister of Interior, has been acquitted. He has stood trial in January and February...
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Erwin Sperisen’s direct superior risks 160 years’ imprisonment

10.01.2017
Globe Guatemala
Eighteen months after Erwin Sperisen received a life sentence for the murder of ten prisoners, his hierarchic superior i...
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Erwin Sperisen

07.04.2021
Globe 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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