Trial court reopens but adjourns quickly as defense lawyer is a no-show;...
Presiding Judge Yassmin Barrios reconvened the trial of Efrain Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez Tuesday morning, only to adjourn within 30 minutes on account of the defense lawyer’s absence....
View ArticleRios Montt Trial Moves to Closing Arguments: Public Ministry Seeks 75 Years...
Wednesday’s hearing in the Guatemalan genocide trial of Efrain Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez saw a dramatic turn of events when, after a tense morning of vitriolic outbursts and veiled...
View ArticleHistoric Genocide Trial Nears End; Rios Montt Addresses the Court, Declares...
After several weeks of fits and starts, the trial of Efrain Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez is nearing conclusion. The former head of state and chief of military intelligence, being...
View ArticleJudgment in Genocide Trial Expected Today at 4 pm Despite Pre-trial Judge’s...
The trial in the case of Rios Montt and Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez for genocide and crimes against humanity concluded this morning. The last order of business was a statement from Rodriguez Sanchez,...
View ArticleGuatemala’s Constitutional Court Overturns Rios Montt Conviction and Sends...
Only ten days after a trial court issued its historic verdict convicting Efrain Rios Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity, and sentencing him to prison for 80 years, Guatemala’s...
View ArticleUncertainty Hovers Over Next Stages in Historic Guatemala Genocide Case After...
One week after the Constitutional Court overturned the then days-old conviction of Guatemala’s former de facto president Efrain Rios Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity, the status and...
View ArticleOne Week After Overturning Former Dictator’s Genocide Conviction, Guatemalan...
In a tense political climate, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court last week overturned the historic conviction of former Guatemalan strongman Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala for 17 months in what...
View ArticleOne Month After Guatemala’s Constitutional Court Intervenes to Challenge Rios...
On May 20, almost one month ago, the news that Guatemala’s highest court partially annulled the judgment and trial in the case of Efrain Rios Montt, essentially on a technicality, shook Guatemala and...
View ArticleIxil genocide trial on hold, other charges against Rios Montt continue
With the events of recent weeks – the May 20 Constitutional Court decision to undo the guilty verdict in the Rios Montt trial and the new trial court’s expressed unavailability until April 2014 – it...
View ArticleSummary of trial and excerpts of judgment available
The Open Society Justice Initiative has just published a summary of the six week trial of Efrain Rios Montt based on the daily monitoring reports from this website. The 56-page book, Judging a...
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