Guatemalan ex-strongman's transfer to mental hospital blocked on appeal
Guatemalan ex-strongman's transfer to mental hospital blocked on appeal
Published July 25, 2015/
EFE
The court-ordered transfer of Guatemalan former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to a mental hospital for nine days of psychiatric evaluations, which had been scheduled for Saturday, has been suspended on appeal.
Jaime Hernandez, a member of the 89-year-old ex-strongman's defense team, told reporters that an appeals court issued an injunction postponing his client's transfer to the Carlos Federico Mora Hospital in this capital.
The criminal appellate court ordered a special tribunal set up to try violent crimes against women to work with a medical examiner to verify the state of Rios Montt's health and present a report within 24 hours. It also asked Guatemala's Court of High Risk "B" - which had been scheduled to begin hearing Rios Montt's retrial on genocide charges on Thursday - to submit its own report on the matter.
Hernandez said he filed for the injunction on Friday because the High Risk court's decision to order his client's transfer from his residence in Guatemala City, where his is under house arrest, to a mental hospital was "arbitrary, illegal and unacceptable."
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