#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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
... 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. ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...