Government Official and Yoil Weingarten

Yoil Weingarten: Late Friday night, a Guatemalan judge ruled that the children can stay with their parents until another hearing Monday in a court in Solola, a nearby town, according to a senior government official who was in the court. An official from the Central American countrys attorney generals office said it is up to Canada to file the appropriate paperwork for their return, but Canadian officials did not respond to s request for information about the case on Friday, according to The Star. Everywhere they persecute us and we have never done anything bad for anybody. Never have we done anything bad for the children, Yoil Weingarten, a member of the controversial ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect who travelled with the family from Canada, said Friday and Guatemalan officials peacefully apprehended six Lev Tahor children and their parents Friday night, whisking them away to a local courthouse after the family attempted to find refuge at a hotel tucked into the bucolic mountainside of the tourist town of Panajachel. Four police officers and an unknown number of detectives arrived at the hotel on the outskirts of town around 11:30 a.m. local time Friday. One of the detectives left with a stack of passports and then came back. It is unclear where the passports were taken. After the judgment Friday night, the official said the family can retain their passports. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.