{"id":14628,"date":"2023-09-05T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/guatemala-declaration-conjointe-de-29-organisations-en-soutien-a-lavocate-guatemalteque-claudia-gonzalez-condamnant-sa-detention-et-appelant-a-sa-liberation-immediate\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:08:40","slug":"guatemala-joint-statement-of-29-organisations-in-support-of-guatemalan-lawyer-claudia-gonzalez-condemning-her-detention-and-calling-for-her-immediate-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/guatemala-joint-statement-of-29-organisations-in-support-of-guatemalan-lawyer-claudia-gonzalez-condemning-her-detention-and-calling-for-her-immediate-release\/","title":{"rendered":"GUATEMALA: Joint statement of 29 organisations in support of Guatemalan lawyer Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez, condemning her detention and calling for her immediate release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOn the morning of 28 August 2023,<strong> lawyer Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez was arrested, charged with the crime of abuse of authority<\/strong>. The arrest took place following a search of her home ordered by the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, as part of the alleged investigation proceedings against her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holder of the Lawyers for Lawyers 2023 prize, Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez has been the subject of online harassment on social networks and threats of legal action. Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez Orellana, <strong>former representative of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala<\/strong> (CIGIC), acted as legal advisor to nine of her former colleagues on the Commission, which allegedly led to her <strong>persecution and recent arrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In view of the critical situation facing the lawyer Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez Orellana, the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger and Lawyers for Lawyers <strong>supported by 27 other organisations<\/strong>, have signed a<strong> joint statement<\/strong> urging the Guatemalan authorities to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Immediately and unconditionally release<\/strong> lawyer Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/li>\n<li>Take all necessary measures to <strong>guarantee the rights to due process, legal defence and access to justice<\/strong> in the case of Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/li>\n<li>Guarantee that <strong>all lawyers in Guatemala are able to carry out their legitimate professional activities without fear of reprisals and free of all undue restrictions<\/strong> including judicial harassment arbitrary arrest, deprivation of liberty or other arbitrary sanctions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full joint statement in <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OIAD-L4L-Statement-Claudia-Gonzalez-EN-VDeflogos.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENGLISH<\/a> AND <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/OIAD-L4L-Claudia-Gonzalez-ES-VDeflogos.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPANISH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4IByl5-gD6I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez for the International Observatory for Lawyers in Danger.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOn the morning of 28 August 2023, lawyer Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez was arrested, charged with the crime of abuse of authority. The arrest took place following a search of her home ordered by the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, as part of the alleged investigation proceedings against her.\u201d Holder of the Lawyers for Lawyers 2023 prize, Claudia Gonz\u00e1lez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14639,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14628\/revisions\/14639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protect-lawyers.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}