Guatemala: Human Rights Defenders Network Action - Human rights activists under attack in 2005

Guatemala: Human Rights Defenders Network Action - Human rights activists under attack in 2005

Index Number: AMR 34/011/2005
Date Published: 9 March 2005
Categories: Americas, Guatemala

In this document, Amnesty International expresses its concerns about renewed attacks by clandestine groups and organised crime against human rights defenders and other social activists in Guatemala aimed at intimidating and hindering their human rights work. Amnesty International believes that lack of political will to deal with the longstanding issues of impunity, weak judicial system and clandestine groups in Guatemala has allowed this wave of attacks against human rights defenders to go unchallenged.