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1. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... are daughters of two of the men that have been in jail since 28/08/19. Photo : Giulia Vuillermoz In August 2018, the people of Guapinol began to organise protests to stop the mining company’s activities. ...; Created on 01 September 2020
2. Governor Aduviri must remain in jail: (Regional News); Kleber Sanchez - La Republica The Criminal Court of Appeals of Puno confirmed a sentence of 6 years in prison against the regional governor Walter Aduviri and the payment of civil reparations for S/2 ...; Created on 26 December 2019
3. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... people. In the last five years alone, more than 50 Garífuna men and women have been killed; 30 have been jailed and 32 have a court order, prosecuted for the alleged usurpation of their own ancestral ...; Created on 25 December 2021
4. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... introduced himself as follows: “I’m Jeremias & I’m 64 years old. I’m a father and a member of a peasant enterprise of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA). I have been in jail since December ...; Created on 22 February 2021
5. Canadian Mining Companies Are Devastating The Global South: (Mining and Human Rights); ... for the protests, until he was jailed in 2019, a year after being elected governor of Puno. Aduviri, a supporter of Bolivian President Evo Morales, was released from prison this past December through ...; Created on 21 January 2021
6. Reclaim Your Rights: Defend Indigenous People’s Lands: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... murder with impunity. In Indonesia, indigenous farmers Dilik Bin Asap and land rights activist James Watt are now jailed for harvesting fruits from a plantation company that has encroached on their lands. ...; Created on 17 December 2020
7. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... a small low-income community on the country’s north coast, could also soon be sent to jail. The massive open pit mine, owned by one of the country’s most powerful couples, was sanctioned without community ...; Created on 07 October 2020
8. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... in jail for defending the Guapinol and San Pedro Rivers, for defending life,” says the 26-year-old, who has become the public face of her father’s plight. Before his arrest, Mr. Sorto led the family ministry ...; Created on 25 September 2020
9. Thousands of Salvadorans endure COVID-19 without running water to wash their hands: (Regional News); ... de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, or ANDA) have been present since the mid-1990s. Carlos Perla, president of ANDA from 1994 to 2002, for example, just finished serving a 15-year jail sentence for corruption. ...; Created on 11 September 2020
10. 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); ... in pretrial jail for almost a year without ever having a solid legal reasoning as to why. A year ago this week, the defenders voluntarily appeared before the National Court to clarify their legal situation ...; Created on 24 August 2020
11. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... the government of U.S., is saying nothing about that. Everybody knows about the brother of the president, the actual president. He’s here in jail. The name of the president of Honduras is involved in bad ...; Created on 17 August 2020
12. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... official Vicente Ollagon, and indigenous Lumad leader Datu Jomorito Goaynon are at great risk of contracting COVID-19 because of the country’s atrocious jail conditions. In the Philippines, human rights ...; Created on 21 April 2020
13. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... and water," Tabora warns. Visits, however, have been suspended due to the health crisis, leaving activists jailed at the mercy of prison authorities. ---------------------- *Translatated from: https://www.dw.com/es/diputados-alemanes-reclaman-justicia-para-activistas-medioambientales-hondure%C3%B1os/a-53118557 ...; Created on 20 April 2020
14. Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts: (Regional News); ... the government repeatedly signed off on the project despite protests from the Xinka indigenous community. Over the next several years, Environmental Justice Atlas said, protestors were hurt, jailed and ...; Created on 02 March 2020
15. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas: (Regional News); ... All of the suspects in his murder have some link to the company, but the case remains open and no one is in jail. “We didn’t bury Mariano, we planted him and we continue the fight,” remarked Gustavo Castro ...; Created on 26 December 2019
16. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); ... to illicit association against the Honduran state. These charges carry excessive jail terms under anti-terrorism laws. After the legal defense team pointed to numerous inconsistencies in the evidence ...; Created on 24 October 2019
17. More than one hundred organizations reject the unjust payment of USD $31 million to Canadian mining company Bear Creek: (Regional News); ... go to jail, my son is not a thief, he is not corrupt, he is not a murderer,” he said, lamenting the great hardships that this process has brought on his entire family. Also present was Patricio Illacutipa ...; Created on 16 September 2018
18. Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Chavez, Vice President of Pacific Rim El Salvador while the murders took place, was jailed for killing and dismembering a municipal employee, but despite the circumstantial evidence against him, he was ...; Created on 08 February 2018
19. Justice delayed: Environmentalists assassinated in Cabañas remembered: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... took place and currently in jail for the dismemberment of a municipal employee, must be investigated as a possible intellectual author of the crimes” the statement reads. Chavez is the son of a known ...; Created on 07 January 2016
20. Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders: (Mining and Human Rights); Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders Wednesday April 11, six members of the 18th Street gang were sentenced to between 30 and 145 years in jail ...; Created on 18 April 2012

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