22 April 2013 Last updated at 03:11 GMT
Supporters say charges of inciting violence and vandalism used to detain seven senior politicians are trumped up
Canil, a legal advisor with the Human Rights Legal Action Center (CALDH), is part of a team that helped find witnesses to testify in the landmark case against Mr. Ríos Montt, who ruled Guatemala in 1982 and 1983. That period has been called the most brutal in the country’s 36-year war, which ended in 1996.
Boston Marathon bombs: Prosecutors prepare charges
US federal prosecutors are preparing charges against the surviving Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as more details emerge of his capture.
If he is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, he could face the death penalty.
Mr Tsarnaev is in hospital, unable to speak because of a wound to the throat.
US media quoted anonymous sources as saying he had been responding to questions in writing, but this has not been officially confirmed.
The FBI's Boston field office and the Boston police department both said the information did not come from them.
Boston's Mayor Tom Menino had earlier told ABC News that "we don't know if we'll ever be able to question the individual".
Bangladesh faces shutdown as part of protest over opposition arrests
Supporters say charges of inciting violence and vandalism used to detain seven senior politicians are trumped up
An alliance of opposition parties in Bangladesh has called for a 36-hour general shutdown, or hartal in protest at the continued detention of seven senior officials of the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP).
The protest, due to start on Tuesday, is the latest in a series in the increasingly politically volatile south Asian state. All businesses and shops will be expected to close.
Though intensive strikes, demonstrations and clashes in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the country have diminished in recent weeks, tensions remain high.
SYRIA
Syrian opposition activists claim dozens dead in 'massacre'
Anti-government activists in a suburb of Damascus have claimed that regime troops summarily executed more than 80 people. The claims have not been independently verified, as media access to Syria is tightly restricted.
The London-based opposition group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights accused President Bashar al-Assad's regime on Sunday of killing at least 80 people in the neighborhood of Jdeidet al-Fadel, with other activists putting the death toll in the hundreds.
Jamal al-Golani, a member of the Revolution Leadership Council opposition group, told the Reuters news agency that the number of dead could be higher than 250, with many of the victims shot at close range. He said that the presence of Syrian army patrols made it difficult to document all of the deaths.
Moroccan adoption law change leaves foreigners in limbo
For more than a year Yassamane and Eric have been waiting to adopt a child in Morocco. But a decision to tighten the adoption law has thrown the whole process into doubt, leaving dozens of hopeful foreign couples in limbo.
Kafala as it is known in Morocco, or "custody" in Arabic, allows Muslims -- including converts to Islam -- to assume the guardianship of orphans in the North African nation.
The same conditions apply in most Muslim countries, where religion is a determining factor in the adoption process.
But last September, Morocco's government amended the law and barred foreigners from adopting, in order to better protect the children's interests and identity, according to Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid.
Guatemalan who helped build genocide case against ex-dictator was survivor, too
Legal advisor Edwin Canil helped find witnesses to testify in the landmark case against former dictator Ríos Montt. Canil escaped a massacre during Ríos Montt's reign.
An easy smile spreads over lawyer Edwin Canil’s face when he talks about the satisfaction of helping build the genocide and war crimes case against former Guatemalan strongman Efraín Ríos Montt over the past decade. But Mr. Canil’s eyes water just as quickly when he remembers witnessing the massacre of his own Mayan family at the hands of Guatemalan troops when he was just six years old.
Canil, a legal advisor with the Human Rights Legal Action Center (CALDH), is part of a team that helped find witnesses to testify in the landmark case against Mr. Ríos Montt, who ruled Guatemala in 1982 and 1983. That period has been called the most brutal in the country’s 36-year war, which ended in 1996.
Photography back to basics: life through the pinhole
World Pinhole Day is an annual event on the last Sunday in April, and last year around 4,000 people from 74 countries celebrated the joy of making photographs through a small hole, then uploading their favourite image of the day on to the Pinhole Day gallery. Photographer and pinhole specialist Justin Quinnell explains the beauty of getting back to basics.
Pinhole photography forms an image through a small pin-sized hole rather than a lens and its origins can be traced back 2,500 years to when Mo Ti in China observed that light travels in a straight line through a small hole like an arrow.
It is a radical alternative to conventional photography, exploring a world beyond the limitations of the human eye and human wallet. In an age of instant automated screen-based predictability it rediscovers accident, wonder and delight through experimentation - qualities increasingly absent from contemporary photographic practice.
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