Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar

Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar is a judge and the president of one of Guatemala’s two High Risk Court Tribunals.[1] She was the presiding judge in the case of Efraín Ríos Montt, a former dictator of Guatemala.[1] In that trial Montt was found guilty of the genocide of indigenous Ixil Mayans; the verdict came in 2013.[2] The trial was the first time a national judiciary tried a former head of state for genocide in his home country.[1] However, on May 20, 2013, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala overturned the conviction, voiding all proceedings back to April 19 and ordering that the trial be "reset" to that point, pending a dispute over the recusal of judges. Officials have said that Ríos Montt's trial will resume in January 2015.[3]

Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar
Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar
President of one of Guatemala’s two High Risk Court Tribunals
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Barrios and the second or maternal family name is Aguilar.

Barrios received a 2014 International Women of Courage award.[4][5]

As of April 2014 her judicial authority was suspended for a year due to a complaint against her by a lawyer who was involved in the trial of Efraín Ríos Montt.[6]

References
  1. "Bios of 2014 Award Winners". state.gov. Archived from the original on 2014-03-07.
  2. Mariano Castillo, CNN (10 May 2013). "Guatemala's Ríos Montt guilty of genocide". CNN.
  3. "Guatemala Rios Montt genocide trial to resume in 2015". BBC News. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  4. "US Honors International Women of Courage". VOA.
  5. "FITE Celebrates 2014 Women of Courage, Honored by First Lady". JoinFITE – by Dermalogica.
  6. http://www.awiu.org/2014/04/23/introducing-judge-iris-yassmin-barrios-aguilar-of-guatemala-a-2014-international-woman-of-courage/
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