In November 2018, indigenous land and environmental defender Bernardo Caal Xol was sentenced to seven years four months in prison for the crimes of illegal detention and aggravated robbery. This, despite evidence provided by his lawyers throughout the judicial process that Caal Xol was not in the location of the crime at the time it was committed.
PBI has accompanied Bernardo and the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabon since 2017.
Bernardo Caal Xol from PBI Guatemala on Vimeo.
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