{"id":2218,"date":"2018-12-28T13:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:33:43","slug":"justicia-demasiado-demorada-para-los-inocentes-cautivos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/2018\/12\/28\/justicia-demasiado-demorada-para-los-inocentes-cautivos\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Too Long Delayed for Captive Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/es\/2018\/12\/28\/justicia-demasiado-demorada-para-los-inocentes-cautivos\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#2D89EF;border-color:#246ec0;border-radius:5px\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 16px;font-size:13px;line-height:26px;border-color:#6cadf4;border-radius:5px;text-shadow:none\"> ESPA\u00d1OL DISPONIBLE AQU\u00cd<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\" media-object type-InsetMediaIllustration header article__inset article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration article__inset--header \" data-layout=\"header \" data-layout-mobile=\"\">\n<div class=\"media-object-image enlarge-image renoImageFormat- img-header article__inset__image\">\n<div data-mobile-ratio=\"66.66666666666666%\" data-layout-ratio=\"66.66666666666666%\" data-subtype=\"photo\">\n<h2 class=\"sub-head\">The Bitkov family were the victims of a criminal structure, and not a part of it as the prosecutors claim repeatedly.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Dec. 28, 2018 1:44 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-container responsive-media article__inset__image__image\" data-mobile-ratio=\"66.66666666666666%\" data-layout-ratio=\"66.66666666666666%\" data-subtype=\"photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales speaks in Guatemala City, Dec. 20. \" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-44021?width=620&amp;aspect_ratio=1.5\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100px, (max-width: 540px) 500px, (max-width: 620px) 580px, (max-width: 700px) 660px, (max-width: 860px) 820px, 1260px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-44021?width=140&amp;aspect_ratio=1.5 140w, https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-44021?width=540&amp;aspect_ratio=1.5 540w, https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-44021?width=620&amp;aspect_ratio=1.5 620w, https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-44021?width=700&amp;aspect_ratio=1.5 700w, https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-44021?width=860&amp;aspect_ratio=1.5 860w, https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-44021?width=1260&amp;aspect_ratio=1.5 1260w\" alt=\"Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales speaks in Guatemala City, Dec. 20. \" data-enlarge=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-44021?width=1260&amp;aspect_ratio=1.5\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsj-article-caption article__inset__image__caption\"><span class=\"wsj-article-caption-content\">Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales speaks in Guatemala City, Dec. 20.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"wsj-article-credit article__inset__image__caption__credit\"><span class=\"wsj-article-credit-tag\">PHOTO:\u00a0<\/span>CORTES\u00c3CA\/ZUMA PRESS<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the defense attorney for the Bitkov family, who have been unjustly detained in Guatemala since 2015, I believe Mary Anastasia O\u2019Grady\u2019s column accurately describes the lack of accountability surrounding the family\u2019s plight (\u201c<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-the-u-n-bullies-a-u-s-ally-11545598724?mod=article_inline\">How the U.N. Bullies an Ally<\/a>,\u201d The Americas, Dec. 24). The United Nations\u2019 Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and Guatemalan prosecutors have failed to take action against senior Guatemalan officials who were involved in a criminal business issuing passports and other documents to foreigners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the retrial of Russian immigrant Igor Bitkov for using false documents, Guatemalan prosecutors refused to produce the identity card of Mr. Bitkov\u2019s daughter, Anastasia. If the card had been produced, the court would have seen that it bears the signature of Mayra V\u00e9liz, former deputy of the foreign department of the Migration Directorate and subsequent deputy attorney general. Ms. V\u00e9liz has not been prosecuted. Indeed, her job in the attorney general\u2019s office required the explicit approval of CICIG.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-article-newsletter\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"cx-read-next-mobile\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sincere efforts by Western governments against corruption in Guatemala are being subverted for criminal purposes by the same organizations assigned to clean things up. The Bitkov family were the victims of a criminal structure, and not a part of it as the prosecutors claim repeatedly. Yet they are denied the opportunity to defend themselves and they cannot present the evidence that in a rule-of-law country would lead immediately to their acquittal. Instead, CICIG and the attorney general are seeking a 14-year jail sentence for Mr. Bitkov.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victoria Sandoval<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Guatemala City<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/justice-too-long-delayed-for-captive-innocents-11546022648<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Letters: Justice Too Long Delayed for Captive Innocents <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KBTtiST2vY\">https:\/\/t.co\/KBTtiST2vY<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WSJOpinion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MaryAnastasiaO&#39;Grady (@MaryAnastasiaOG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryAnastasiaOG\/status\/1078729640993308678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">La familia Bitkov fue v\u00edctima de una estructura criminal, y no una parte de ella, como afirman repetidamente los fiscales.<br \/>En un pa\u00eds de derecho los llevar\u00edan a una absoluci\u00f3n inmediata.<br \/>WSJ de 28.12.2018<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UuaJLu4H3G\">https:\/\/t.co\/UuaJLu4H3G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Irina Bitkova (@Irina_Bitkova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Irina_Bitkova\/status\/1078743043333914625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/2018\/12\/28\/justicia-demasiado-demorada-para-los-inocentes-cautivos\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitkov family were the victims of a criminal structure, and not a part of it as the prosecutors claim repeatedly. Dec. 28, 2018 1:44 p.m. ET Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales speaks in Guatemala City, Dec. 20.\u00a0PHOTO:\u00a0CORTES\u00c3CA\/ZUMA PRESS As the defense attorney for the Bitkov family, who have been unjustly detained in Guatemala since 2015, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,137],"tags":[83,63,43,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-2218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-casobitkovs","8":"category-wall-street-jorunal","9":"tag-anastasia-bitkova","10":"tag-igor-bitkov","11":"tag-irina-bitkova","12":"tag-victoria-sandoval-wsj"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportthebitkovs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}