Urgent Action: Murder of Brother of Lawyer in Gerardi Case
| February 2nd, 2006The following urgent action request has been put out by NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala):
he was going out with some friends and later phoned to say he would be
home the following day. His family never heard from him again, and five
days later identified his corpse at a local morgue. The 21-year-old's
body showed signs of torture and was brutally mutilated. One of his
limbs was found afterwards with his identification card nearby,
suggesting that those responsible wanted to make sure his body would be
identified.
Darinel Domingo Montejo was a law student at San Carlos University,
living with his parents in a marginal area of Villa Nueva just outside
0 of Guatemala City. So far, there has been no indication of the motive
behind his killing. Several of Darinel's brothers are involved in
political activity that challenges the status quo, the most prominent
of whom is Mario Gonzalo Domingo Montejo. Mario is the coordinator of
the Defense of Dignity department in the Guatemalan Archbishop's Human
Rights Office (ODHAG), and is the lead lawyer representing the Catholic
Church in the legal case against the murderers of Monsignor Juan José
Gerardi. Mario is also married to Jessica Yarrow, who was NISGUA's
Field Coordinator in Guatemala from 2001 until November 2005.
For more information about this urgent action and where to send your appeals: click here. If you would like to join GSN's urgent action network: click here. Prensa Libre wrote an article on the assassination of Darinel Domingo Montejo.
