human rights defender
Basilio Bernardo Puac García
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Basilio Bernardo Puac García
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
HRD's Gender
Man
Type of HRD
- Social and community leader
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Environmental rights
- Fight against corruption
- Indigenous peoples’ rights
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
Under house arrest (pre-trial)
HRD's bio and work
(AI translated) Basilio Bernardo Puac García is the former vice president of the 48 cantons of Totonicapán. He was involved in the protests held in 2023 to ensure that the will of the Guatemalan people was respected during that year’s elections and that the democratic process was upheld. For this reason, he, along with other community leaders, is being criminalized.
Detained since
Jan 14, 2026
Sentence
(AI translated) The defendant is involved in a criminal proceedings regarding four offenses; he has been granted a substitute measure in the form of home arrest.
Latitude: 14.637417396812422
Longitude: -90.47845780849458
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean
Location of detention - City/Town
Ciudad de Guatemala
Location of detention - Facility
Centro de Detención para Hombres Mariscal Zavala
Recent case update / evolution
(AI translated) This case is reserved upon request of the Public Prosecution Service.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Social and community leader
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Environmental rights
- Fight against corruption
- Indigenous peoples’ rights
- HRD's Picture
- Copyright
- ntnoticiastoto
- HRD's bio and work
(AI translated) Basilio Bernardo Puac García is the former vice president of the 48 cantons of Totonicapán. He was involved in the protests held in 2023 to ensure that the will of the Guatemalan people was respected during that year’s elections and that the democratic process was upheld. For this reason, he, along with other community leaders, is being criminalized.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Ciudad de Guatemala
- Location of detention - Facility
- Centro de Detención para Hombres Mariscal Zavala
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 14.637417396812422
Longitude: -90.47845780849458
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Jan 14, 2026
- Current Status
- Under house arrest (pre-trial)
- Sentence
(AI translated) The defendant is involved in a criminal proceedings regarding four offenses; he has been granted a substitute measure in the form of home arrest.
- Recent case update / evolution
(AI translated) This case is reserved upon request of the Public Prosecution Service.
- Documented by
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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