Timeline - NISGUA

May 2013

Genocide trial sentence overturned; CALDH press conference called sentence, “An opportunity for peace”

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:30:18+00:00Tags: AJR, genocide, Guatemala, history, human rights, impunity, indigenous rights, international law, Ixil, justice, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, solidarity, survivors, testimony, trial|

The Guatemalan Constitutional Court emitted a resolution late Monday evening to annul the genocide trial verdict and revert proceedings back to April 19. Judge Barrios of the First Court for High Risk Crimes "A" [...]

Sentence of Dignified Reparations for the Ixil People

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T17:59:50+00:00Tags: AJR, genocide, Guatemala, history, human rights, impunity, indigenous rights, international law, Ixil, justice, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, solidarity, survivors, testimony, trial|

On May 10, Efraín Ríos Montt was found guilty of the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity, in an historic ruling that sentenced him to 80 years in prison. As ordered during the [...]

Ríos Montt: Guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:00:06+00:00Tags: AJR, genocide, Guatemala, history, human rights, impunity, indigenous rights, international law, Ixil, justice, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, solidarity, survivors, testimony, trial|

Today in Guatemala, Judge Yazmin Barrios found former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. The court ratified all the elements of genocide described by witness and expert testimony, [...]

Genocide on Trial, Day 27: Genocide trial closes and moves to deliberations

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:00:24+00:00Tags: AJR, CALDH, genocide, Guatemala, history, human rights, indigenous rights, justice, Maya, solidarity, survivors, trial|

NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Ríos Montt and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez for genocide and crimes against humanity. Read our previous summaries: Day 1, 2, 3, 4/5, 6, 7, [...]

Genocide on Trial, Day 26: Benjamin Jerónimo on behalf of AJR, “I ask that justice be done… so the survivors can feel peace”

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:00:40+00:00Tags: AJR, Benjamin Jerónimo, CALDH, conclusions, human rights, indigenous rights, Ixil, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, testimony, trial|

Genocide on Trial, Day 26: Concluding arguments, “You cannot deny the undeniable”

nisgua_admin2019-12-27T18:00:54+00:00Tags: AJR, Benjamin Jerónimo, CALDH, conclusions, human rights, indigenous rights, Ixil, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, testimony, trial|

NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Ríos Montt and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez for genocide and crimes against humanity.Read our previous summaries: Day 1, 2, 3, 4/5, 6, 7, 8, 9, [...]