human rights defender
Virginia Laparra
Actions and Campaigns
Organization affiliation
- Fiscalía Especial contra la Impunidad (FECI)
HRD's Gender
Woman
Type of HRD
- Lawyer
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Fight against corruption
- Fight against impunity
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
HRD's bio and work
(AI Translated) Virginia Laparra is a lawyer and former prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor's Office against Impunity (FECI) of the Public Ministry (MP) in Quetzaltenango. In this role, she dealt with the fight against corruption.
Current Status
Released on bail
Detained since
Feb 23, 2022
Date of release
Jan 3, 2024
Charge(s)
- Other
Sentence
(AI Translated) She was sentenced to four years in prison for the crime of Abuse of Authority.
Latitude: 14.642269939245883
Longitude: -90.51311731338502
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Americas: Latin America and the Caribbean
Location of detention - City/Town
(AI Translated) Guatemala City
Recent case update / evolution
(AI Translated) She was sentenced to four years in prison for the crime of Abuse of Authority, linked to a proceeding in a second case for the crime of disclosure of information.
She was declared in default on June 5, 2025, in the disclosure of information proceeding at the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
In April 2025, the Public Prosecutor's Office requested that she also be declared in default in the Abuse of Authority proceeding, a request that was denied on September 5, 2025, which is why on September 16 the Public Prosecutor's Office filed an amparo before the Constitutional Court against the chamber that rejected the request for a declaration of default.
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