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Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar International Women of Courage Award Awarded In 2014

 
Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar

Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar

Award Name : International Women of Courage Award

Year of Award : 2014

Award for : Civilian Awards

Location : Guatemala City, Guatemala, Guatemala

 

Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar is a judge and the president of one of Guatemala’s two High Risk Court Tribunals.She was the presiding judge in the case of Efrain Rios Montt, a former dictator of Guatemala.In that trial Montt was found guilty of the genocide of indigenous Ixil Mayans; the verdict came in 2013.The trial was the first time a national judiciary tried a former head of state for genocide in his home country.However, on May 20, 2013, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala overturned the conviction, voiding all proceedings back to April 19 and ordering that the trial be "reset" to that point, pending a dispute over the recusal of judges. Officials have said that Ríos Montt's trial will resume in January 2015.Barrios received a 2014 International Women of Courage award.

 

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