The former mayor of a small town in western Guatemala was sentenced to a year in prison for expelling the Lev Tahor sect of Orthodox Jews, JTA reports.
Antonio Adolfo Perez y Perez of San Juan La Laguna was found guilty of coercion in the expulsion, which took place in 2014.
Up to 500 members of Lev Tahor were forced out of the village following religiously tainted disputes with its Mayan residents, who are Roman Catholic. The local elders’ council voted against the controversial group. Perez was given the option of paying a $1,000 fine instead of jail, according to the report. Read more at JTA.
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500? Doubt that…
Where are they now, these poor abused mothers and children? We need to rescue them. Dont know why we are not looking to save these brainwashed families amongst us. Its pidyon shveiim … These woman and children are abused!
Someone please step up and do something.
It’s absurd.
Some were rescued ,and they slipped away to rejoin the group
either a year in prison or a 1,000 fine? so this really means he got a fine