... Platform, also reported being intimidated and threatened with detention twice by military and security agents of a supermarket.
In addition, leaders of La Lempira, including Raúl Ramírez of the Unified ...
... organizations are unable to accompany them or to properly verify and register complaints.
In addition, eight water defenders are being held in illegal pre-trial detention and face additional threats ...
... this measure in place, the residents of these municipalities have been experiencing a restriction in their rights to freedom of action and locomotion, the right to legal detention, assembly and demonstration, ...
... Tomalon was arrested by the Philippine National Police (PNP) on charges of serious illegal detention and kidnapping. These are trumped-up charges meant to silence her activism. Gloria was also labelled ...
... lack of space and the deplorable sanitary conditions they live in. This is the situation of seven environmental activists who have been held in preventive detention since last September at the Olanchito ...
... efforts to organize at the community level, they have faced defamation, criminalization, arbitrary detention, physical threats from armed groups and forced displacement.
Internationally, in the ongoing ...
Pedro Cabezas
While the role of the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, in a narcotrafficking ring led by his brother, Tony Hernadez, slowly unfolded in a court of Manhattan, New York, a little ...
... politician who is currently under detention for the gruesome murder of a municipal employee and for his alleged involvement with criminal networks in Honduras.
Rodrigo Chaves was Vice President of Pacific ...
... 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, a small low-income community ...
... 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 ...
... 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 in jail for defending the Guapinol ...