Description: Supporting defenders at risk in Guatemala
Supporting defenders at risk in Guatemala
Bernardo Caal Xol, a water and environmental defender, has been in prison for exactly three years. He is an innocent man.
Today, January 30, marks the third anniversary of the unjust detention of Bernardo Caal Xol, a professor and indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’ human rights defender. The Human Rights Defenders Project wishes to express our grave concern and dismay that the courts continue to delay the judicial review of his case. This despite the overwhelming evidence that Bernardo is innocent of the crimes for which he was accused and sentenced to 7 years and 4 months in prison. We feel that this malicious delay is a perverse way