GUATEMALA city - a Guatemalan judge Tuesday dropped charges against a former prison director accused of having participated in the killing of 10 detainees.
Judge Patricia Flores Tuesday ordered the release of Alejandro Giammattei, who was arrested last summer, saying: it was not enough evidence to continue.
A former presidential election candidate, Giammattei was among 19 people accused of plotting the murders of seven prisoners during an uprising of 2007 Pavon prison and execution of three inmates who escaped from the prison of "el infiernito" in 2005.
Interior then Minister Carlos Vielmann is also charged in the case. Vielmann was arrested in Spain in October 2010, and the request for extradition by the Guatemala is pending.
The accused also include the former head of the national police, Erwin Sperisen, whose extradition from the Switzerland is also underway.
The United Nations International Commission against impunity in the Guatemala, put in place to manage similar cases, accused Giammattei, Vielmann and Sperisen of belonging to a criminal organization which engaged in executions.
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