human rights defender
Paola Mishelle Escobar Quiñonez
Actions and Campaigns
Paola Mishelle Escobar Quiñonez
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
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
Current Status
Released on bail
HRD's bio and work
Detained since
Feb 16, 2022
Date of release
Mar 11, 2022
Charge(s)
- Other
Sentence
(AI translated) Indicted for abuse of authority.
Latitude: 14.627240688310437
Longitude: -90.51336407661438
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
Recent case update / evolution
(AI translated) Paola was tried and granted house arrest on 11 March 2022, however the MP appealed this decision and the 4th Chamber of the Court of Appeals declared the appeal admissible and ordered her to be tried, and she was re-arrested on 15/05/2023. On 01/09/2023 she regained her liberty, but was remanded in custody and is currently in exile.
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's Gender
- Woman
- Type of HRD
- Lawyer
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Fight against corruption
- Fight against impunity
- Organization affiliation
- Fiscalía Especial contra la Impunidad (FECI)
- HRD's Picture
- 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
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 14.627240688310437
Longitude: -90.51336407661438
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Feb 16, 2022
- Current Status
- Released on bail
- Date of release
- Mar 11, 2022
- Charge(s)
- Other
- Sentence
(AI translated) Indicted for abuse of authority.
- Recent case update / evolution
(AI translated) Paola was tried and granted house arrest on 11 March 2022, however the MP appealed this decision and the 4th Chamber of the Court of Appeals declared the appeal admissible and ordered her to be tried, and she was re-arrested on 15/05/2023. On 01/09/2023 she regained her liberty, but was remanded in custody and is currently in exile.
- Protection actions and campaigns
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- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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