In the capital’s Human Rights Square, in front of the Supreme Court, the organization’s president, Byron Barrera, asked for the support of all of society, the main actors and especially the Church to ring the bells on this day.
He called on citizens to join the Free Speech Campaign on Journalist Day and sound their car horns and sound frying pans and pots at 6:00 p.m. local time in support of constitutional rights and guarantees.
“We believe that this is one of the many measures to which we can contribute,” said Barrera, in reference to the call for an end to the persecution of the Public Ministry (MP) and for the freedom of those detained for sharing their data .
The representative of the local journalist sector joined the protests of indigenous organizations that have been calling for the resignation of their top figure Consuelo Porras for 50 days in front of the headquarters of the Attorney General’s Office.
“We are in a very difficult situation because it involves mocking the will of the people expressed in the elections,” said the APG president.
“We are not in favor of any party or candidate, but we believe that the vote cast by the people should be respected,” he clarified.
For his part, the vice president of the organization, Mario Recino, noted that if students, teachers and researchers are now criminalized for giving statements, this will later go against citizens, he stressed.
Last Thursday, the deputy presented a new investigation and, on the basis of this, carried out 31 raids, inspections and searches of apartments and sent five people to prison.
With the so-called “Takeover of the USAC: Political Loot” case, the representative implicated the elected presidential duo in the protests on the country’s most important university campus from May 19, 2022 to June 9, 2023.
Students, professors, legislators and even the Semilla flag bearers then demonstrated against the allegedly fraudulent vote that appointed Walter Mazariegos as rector.
Various Guatemalan and international organizations condemned the legal maneuvers against members of the University of San Carlos of Guatemala (USAC) and warned that Parliament was once again jeopardizing the change of government.
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