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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElSalvador</a> faces scrutiny for ‘political’ trial of five <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalActivists</a>UN and legal experts have condemned prosecution of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiMining</a> campaigners over alleged civil war-era killingNina Lakhani Wed 9 Oct 2024 11.43 EDT"Five environmental activists who helped secure a historic mining ban in El Salvador are facing life imprisonment for an alleged civil war-era crime, in a case that has been condemned by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UN</a> and legal experts as baseless and politically motivated.The trial against Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega, who were arrested in January 2023 for the alleged killing of an army informant in 1989, opened on Tuesday in Sensuntepeque, in the department of Cabañas in northern El Salvador."The case has proceeded in almost total secrecy amid widespread allegations of legal violations – and repeated calls for the charges to be dismissed from UN experts, and hundreds of international lawyers, academics and rights groups."The defendants, who were at the forefront of a 13-year grassroots-led campaign to ban <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MetalMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MetalMining</a> to protect the country’s dwindling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#farmland</a> from further <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contamination</a>, were arrested amid warnings that President Nayib Bukele was planning to overturn the 2017 historic law."The five anti-mining activists had denounced suspicious land sales and mining interests operating in the area when arrested, accused of murder and illicit association over an alleged crime during the 1979-1992 civil war."'This case has no legal basis, but we fear that the lack of judicial independence and the Bukele government’s desire to overturn the metal mining ban risks the five <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmental</a> leaders being subjected to a terrible miscarriage of justice,' said Pedro Cabezas, coordinator of the Central American Alliance Against Mining."'The five are respected community leaders, and sentencing them to inhumane prison conditions would be a death sentence.'"[...]"In what was perceived as a show of support for the activists, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Germany</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#France</a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> sent representatives to pre-trial hearings. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> administration has remained silent despite 17 members of Congress condemning the arrests and urging the secretary of state, Antony <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blinken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Blinken</a>, to join calls for the charges to be dismissed." Read more: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/09/el-salvador-trial-environmental-activists-mining" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/09/el-salvador-trial-environmental-activists-mining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalActivists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriminalizingActivism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpedUpCharges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpedUpCharges</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a>

DoomsdaysCWHonduras: Anti-mining activist Juan Lopez shot dead<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuanLopez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JuanLopez</a> is the fourth member of an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmental</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> group based in in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tocoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tocoa</a> to be killed since 2023. President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/XiomaraCastro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XiomaraCastro</a> condemned the murder and has ordered an investigation.September 16, 2024"An <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalActivist</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Honduras</a> who protested to preserve <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TropicalForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TropicalForests</a> and rivers was killed over the weekend, even after warnings to better ensure his safety."Juan Lopez, 46, was gunned down as he left church Saturday in the northeastern town of Tocoa, police said on Sunday."Honduran President Xiomara Castro condmened the apparent murder of Lopez, a member of the Libre party she's allied to, in comments online."'We condemn the vile murder of our comrade and environmental leader Juan Lopez in Tocoa, Colon,' she said. 'I have ordered that all the capabilities of law enforcement be used to clarify this tragedy and identify those responsible.'Multiple members of Lopez's enviromental organization killed"Lopez belonged to the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, an environmental organization in Tocoa on the country's Atlantic coast."Three other members of the group were killed last year in what the organization saw as retaliation. "The group had suffered threats and harassment for years amid efforts to preserve the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Guapinol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Guapinol</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanPedro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SanPedro</a> rivers, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarlosEscaleras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlosEscaleras</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nature</a> Reserve, as the presence of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hydroelectric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hydroelectric</a> companies increased. "Honduran Attorney General Johel Zelaya said the 'reprehensible' murder would not go unpunished, and paid tribute to Lopez's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a>."'His life was an example of struggle. He never gave up in his incessant battle, hand-in-hand with the people to preserve natural resources,' Zelaya said on X.Lopez aware of risks of his activism"An outspoken member of the ruling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LibreParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LibreParty</a>, Lopez had recently publicly called for the resignation of Libre officials caught on video negotiating bribes with drug traffickers in 2013. "Carlos Zelaya, a brother-in-law of president Castro, was caught up in that video. He resigned his seat in congress after admitting he took part in that meeting with drug gangsters. "'If you leave home, you always have in mind that you do not know what might happen, if you are going to return,' Lopez had said in 2021 when speaking of his activism with AFP."Lopez had also raised the alarm himself earlier in the year, saying he had noticed two people on motorbikes observing him in locations around his home.Activist deaths high in Latin America"Global Witness, a British NGO, says Honduras is one of the world's most dangerous countries for environmental activists."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LatinAmerica</a> accounted for 85% of all the world's environmentalists who were killed last year, with 18 deaths registered in Honduras, according to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalWitness</a>. "The United Nations resident coordinator in Honduras, Alice Shackelford, said Lopez had been threatened for his activism and praised his determination to stand up to powerful interests."'We condemn the terrible murder of Juan Lopez, a human rights defender threatened for his work,' she said in a post."km/msh (AFP, Reuters)<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/honduras-anti-mining-activist-juan-lopez-shot-dead/a-70223466" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dw.com/en/honduras-anti-mining-activist-juan-lopez-shot-dead/a-70223466</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForJuan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JusticeForJuan</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GuapinolRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GuapinolRiver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterDefender</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaveTheForests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefendTheSacred</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoMiningWithoutConsent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenwashing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheRivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaveTheRivers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EMCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EMCO</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InversionesLosPinares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InversionesLosPinares</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods</a>

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