Guatemalan Refugee Asylum
Through the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, we represented a Guatemalan refugee, in connection with his application for asylum in the United States. In 1978, he witnessed one of Guatemala’s notorious death squads dumping dead bodies in a Guatemala City construction site. Over the next 11 years, he was falsely arrested and imprisoned repeatedly, where he was subjected to brutal beatings and other forms of torture administered by prison authorities and the renegade National Civil Police. Farella worked with him and his wife to prepare declarations detailing the history of his torture and abuse. In 2006, he application was recommended for approval. (Pro bono)