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1. Public statement from social movement organizations on the detention of members of the Santa Marta community and ADES in El Salvador: (Media Releases); #SantaMartaNoEstaSola San Salvador. January 11, 2023. During the early hours of Wednesday, January 11, agents of the Attorney General Prosecutor's Office and the National Civil Police of El Salvador ...; Created on 13 January 2023
2. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); ... the appeals filed by the defenders' lawyers to review the imposition of preventive detention since September 01, 2019, after having been formally prosecuted for the crimes of aggravated arson and illegal ...; Created on 20 April 2020
3. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... multinational mining companies. Despite the lack of evidence, the Water Defenders were quickly sentenced to six months of pre-trial detention on trumped-up charges related to an alleged crime from nearly ...; Created on 08 April 2023
4. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... at a judicial detention center in Soyapango with many limitations: they are isolated, unable to receive visits from family members, and their lawyers are only allowed to speak with them for a maximum of ...; Created on 06 April 2023
5. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... where the five detained defenders live and work, but no one has ever faced justice. Hundreds of national and international activists and organisations have condemned the detention as politically motivated. ...; Created on 04 April 2023
6. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... only explanation for the arbitrary detention of five community leaders of Santa Marta, the community that led the anti-mining struggle for more than 12 years in order to protect the fragile water suppl ...; Created on 20 January 2023
7. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...; Created on 11 May 2021
8. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... before authorities to face the charges against them: usurpation, arson, robbery, unlawful detention, illicit association and aggravated robbery. Eight of them remain imprisoned, although the prosecution ...; Created on 06 May 2021
9. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); Guapinol Resiste On February 9, 2021, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent a strong and clear message to Honduras: Immediately release the eight imprisoned Guapinol defenders. In its resolution ...; Created on 14 March 2021
10. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste Read complete bill, refering to arbitrary detention of Guapinol River Defenders and illegal mining in Carlos Escaleras National Park here. Introduction comes as Honduran President ...; Created on 23 February 2021
11. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); PBI Brent Patterson On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...; Created on 22 February 2021
12. From dreams of gold to organic agriculture: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... justified to buy food, medicine or attend an emergency, the Government, through the police and the military, transferred them to containment detention centers where they had to complete the mandatory quarantine. ...; Created on 05 January 2021
13. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... judge of the city of Tocoa, Zoe Guifarro, who declared the request to review preventive detention measures inadmissible, which implies the denial of the request made by the private defense, which is composed ...; Created on 28 December 2020
14. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... protesters held in pre-trial detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, ...; Created on 07 October 2020
15. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... to justify this prolonged detention. Berta Cáceres, assassinated in March 2016, was a courageous ecologist and prominent land rights activist from the indigenous Lenka community in Honduras. She was ...; Created on 29 September 2020
16. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... from Guapinol, Honduras, he has been held without bail in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The incarcerated men were part of a local campaign to protect water sources in their community. “He’s ...; Created on 25 September 2020
17. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... also handed themselves in a few months later, but paradoxically, the judge issued a pre-trial detention order. No evidence of the alleged crimes having taken place was presented, not to mention evidence ...; Created on 01 September 2020
18. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution: (Mining and Human Rights); ... detention despite the fact that the charges they face - aggravated arson and unjust deprivation of liberty - do not require this measure. She reaffirmed this decision in November 2019 during a closed-door ...; Created on 24 August 2020
19. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... Aguan and demand: The immediate release of the eight defenders of the Guapinol River and San Pedro who are under unjust preventive measures of detention: Daniel Márquez, Arnold Javier Alemán, Ever ...; Created on 20 August 2020
20. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ... in Honduras. The Appeals Court ruled that five more environmental defenders, in addition to the eight who are already in pretrial detention, must now face legal proceedings. The defenders voluntarily ...; Created on 18 August 2020

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