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Eugene

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Wed Jan 9, 2019, 02:21 PM Jan 2019

Guatemala: court blocks president's expulsion of UN anti-corruption group

Source: Associated Press

Guatemala: court blocks president's expulsion of UN anti-corruption group

Associated Press in Guatemala City
Wed 9 Jan 2019 17.41 GMT

Guatemala’s highest court has blocked President Jimmy Morales’s decision to unilaterally end a UN anti-corruption commission, which has angered the president by investigating him, his sons and his brother over allegations of graft.

Guatemala’s constitutional court overruled Morales’s decision after all-night deliberations on five appeals against the president’s cancellation of the agreement with the UN.

Morales has argued the commission, known by its Spanish initials as Cicig, had violated Guatemala’s sovereignty and violated the rights of suspects.

Given the government’s refusal to guarantee the commission’s security, the UN has withdrawn the commission’s members.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/09/guatemala-jimmy-morales-un-anti-corruption-cicig-court-blocked
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