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Three women HRDs sentenced to two and a half years in prison

🆘#AlertaDefensoras GUATEMALA / Condenadas a dos años y medio de prisiĂłn defensoras criminalizadas por defender el derecho a la vivienda en el asentamiento “Brisas del Mirador” ▶ https://t.co/LXOhDrPSBA @PDHgt @UDEFEGUA @Rednoviguate @unamgt @ForstMichel @PauloAbrao @CIDH pic.twitter.com/BRlyiOaLfQ

— IM-Defensoras (@IM_Defensoras) November 8, 2018

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Judicial harassment in Guatemala moved beyond unlawful arrests and is now in a stage of sentences that will leave human rights defenders in prison for years. The Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (IM-Defensoras), reported that three women HRDs, Aura Margarita Valenzuela, Mariela Alvarez Sucup y Maria Magdalena Zarat Cuzån were sentenced to two and a half years in prison convicted of land usurpation due to an incident where the three were protecting a group of families that were evicted from their settlement in March 2017.

In a separate development, on 9th November 2018, a judge sentenced land rights defender Bernardo Caal to seven years and four months in prison for “illegal detention”. This decision caused outrage in Guatemala given that Caal is an activist protecting the land rights of the q’eqchi community and had been previously accused of other crimes that were not proven.

Bernardo Caal: líder maya encarcelado por protestar contra un proyecto hidroeléctrico https://t.co/jlSG085V8l pic.twitter.com/6CLaWG7a67

— PrensaComunitaria (@PrensaComunitar) November 20, 2018
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26.11.2018

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