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Human rights lawyer's home ransacked in Guatemala in latest string of attacks
Source: The Guardian
Human rights lawyer's home ransacked in Guatemala in latest string of attacks
Armed men forcing entry into Ramón Cadena Rámila’s house
part of escalating threats against lawyers after arrest of military
officials for alleged civil war crimes
Nina Lakhani
Monday 15 August 2016 21.53 BST
Armed men posing as police officers have forced their way into the house of one of Central America’s most prominent human rights lawyers, in the latest episode of an escalating wave of intimidation against legal officials.
At least a dozen men ransacked the house of Ramón Cadena Rámila, Central America director of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, on Monday morning.
The assailants forced a security guard and his family to wait outside on their knees while they ransacked the property.
Cadena, who has played a key role in high-profile human rights cases including the suspension of a lawyer representing former military dictator Efraín Rios Montt, was not at home at the time of the raid.
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Armed men forcing entry into Ramón Cadena Rámila’s house
part of escalating threats against lawyers after arrest of military
officials for alleged civil war crimes
Nina Lakhani
Monday 15 August 2016 21.53 BST
Armed men posing as police officers have forced their way into the house of one of Central America’s most prominent human rights lawyers, in the latest episode of an escalating wave of intimidation against legal officials.
At least a dozen men ransacked the house of Ramón Cadena Rámila, Central America director of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists, on Monday morning.
The assailants forced a security guard and his family to wait outside on their knees while they ransacked the property.
Cadena, who has played a key role in high-profile human rights cases including the suspension of a lawyer representing former military dictator Efraín Rios Montt, was not at home at the time of the raid.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/15/guatemala-human-rights-laywer-attack-ramon-cadena-ramila