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A Guatemalan court Friday found a prominent British children’s rights activist not guilty on defamation charges in a case seen as a test of the country’s respect for human rights.
The court said Bruce Harris, honored in Britain for his work with Central American street children, was innocent of defaming a Guatemalan adoption lawyer by accusing her at a 1997 news conference of child trafficking.
Harris accused lawyer Susana Luarca, at the time married to the president of Guatemala’s Supreme Court, of using her influence to speed up lucrative international adoptions.
