Amnesty International have just (13-01-06) issued an urgent action for Fredy Peccerelli, head of the Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG), Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation and for three of his relatives.

According to Amnesty International, Fredy Peccerelli and other members of the FAFG have been subjected to numerous death threats as a result of their work to exhume mass graves of those killed by the Guatemalan military and their civilian adjuncts in the early 1980s. In 2002 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered that Fredy Peccerelli and other members of the FAFG receive protection. However, this protection has been shown to be inadequate on various occasions.

Fredy Peccerelli was recently based with his family in the UK studying a masters degree in the University of Bournemouth in 2004.