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Message delivered! Shots fired at home of Angelica Choc while she slept inside with two children

by Rights Action
September 20, 2016
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Angelica Choc with her son at the grave of her husband, Adolfo Ich, in May 2016. Photo from Rights Action.

Just after midnight, Friday September 16, 2016, shots were fired at the home of Angelica Choc, a Mayan Q’eqchi’ human rights leader and community defender in El Estor, department of Izabal, Guatemala, while she slept inside with her youngest son and an adopted daughter. Read more from Rights Action here.

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