Guatemalan Dictator Released from Psychiatric Hospital

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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was released from a psychiatric hospital on Tuesday after a week of testing. He was to face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in July, before his lawyers argued that he was mentally unfit to stand trial and a court ordered testing, On August 18, the court will hear testimony from Rios Montt’s psychiatric evaluators to determine whether he will stand trial or not.. Many consider the testing a maneuver to delay the trial. teleSUR