human rights defender

Nathalie Andrea Duarte Castañeda

HRD's Gender

Woman

Type of HRD

  • Other

HRD's thematic area of engagement

  • Civil and political rights

HRD's geographical origin

Urban

Current Status

Released

HRD's bio and work

Detained since

Nov 21, 2020

Date of release

Nov 22, 2020

Sentence

Lack of merit

Geolocation of detention

Country or area of detention

Region of detention

  • Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean

Location of detention - City/Town

Quetzaltenango

Allegations / reports of ill-treatment

After being physically assaulted, she was taken on board a radio patrol car to the courts, where the intimidations and threats continued, as they told all the people arrested that day: ‘you are going to have to pay the damages from the government, which are about 50,000 quetzales. You see why you don't have to be in the demonstrations, if you were studied you wouldn't be here’.

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