Esteban Emanuel Celada Flores
Esteban Emanuel Celada Flores is a human rights lawyer and member of the Group of Litigators against Torture in Latin America (Grupo de Litigantes contra la Tortura en América Latina), an initiative led by lawyers from 10 Latin American countries, working to combat the systematic use of torture in the region. He has collaborated with a number of human rights organisations in Guatemala, including Mujeres Transformando el Mundo (MTM). He has also provided legal representation in many sensitive cases across the country, concerning crimes against humanity, organised crime, sexual violence and femicide.
Since Otto Pérez Molina assumed the role of President in January 2012, cases of harassment and threats against HRDs have been on the rise. Human rights defenders (HRDs) in Guatemala are subjected to death threats, physical attacks, acts of harassment, surveillance, stigmatisation, judicial harassment, arbitrary detention, forced disappearance and killings.
