Guatemala: Ixil genocide trial on hold, other charges against Rios Montt continue

Xeni Jardin 11:00 am Tue Jun 25, 2013

Emi McLean at the Open Society Justice Initiative's Rios Montt trial blog:

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 seems that continued legal proceedings against Rios Montt in the Ixil genocide trial will be in the best of scenarios on hold. However, there have been further developments in connection with another set of charges against former Guatemalan de facto president Efraín Rios Montt.

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