Our Mary O’Grady has been telling you about the Bitkovs—Igor, Irina and Anastasia—who were railroaded to prison in Guatemala. Well, good news. On Thursday Guatemala’s Constitutional Court upheld an earlier ruling that the family of Russian migrants fleeing persecution were victims of document fraud. If there is any rule of law in Guatemala, the trio’s release from jail should be imminent, and they will need asylum lest they be returned to Russia. The ruling comes the day before the U.S. Helsinki Commission, chaired by Sen....
Source: Wall Street Journal April 26, 2018 23:37 UTC