... by Lenir Perez, a powerful businessman previously linked to the execution of construction contracts illegally granted by the government of Juan Orlando Hernandez. Perez has also been accused of environmental ...
... with local insurgency threats. Over the years, they have been accused of various human rights abuses and at one point were even disbanded, only to be revived again. In 2018, Duterte granted them financial ...
... without the authorization of SEMARNAT. He was accused of "conspiring against the economic development of Mexico," and began what the organization Article 19 pointed out as one.
In December 2015, Odyssey ...
... resistance ‘La Puya’ as anti-development and accused local communities of being responsible for the costly suit. "KCA's suit is an example of present-day corporate colonialism. Through violence along with ...
... use of force by the police during that eviction."
May 2014 -- Nine leaders of the resistance are accused of making threats and assaulting employees at the mine. They were cleared of those charges in ...
... Santa Ana mining project had been blocked.
Shut up in Court
After the Aymarazo, the public prosecutor opened investigations against 100 leaders involved in the mobilizations. They were accused of the ...
... were arrested and accused of terrorism for protesting against a national policy for the decentralization of water the services. This policy represented an escalation of an aggressive neoliberal economic ...
... Sorto and her unborn child, and Francisco Duran.
After convicting paid gang members who were accused of committing the murders, a full investigation into the intellectual authors of these murders ...
... have caused great moral and economic damage to El Salvador. The country was put onto the “bench of the accused” for many years. The Pacific Rim company is also responsible for the violence generated in ...
... local gang-members to carry out the murder, claiming she was motivated by alleged disputes between Soto and her daughter. The accused claimed to have been forced into making confessions through subjection ...
... by it often lead to civil strife, which mining companies have been accused of instigating or encouraging.
In Australia the environmental impacts, health, welfare and aspirations of people in areas affected ...
... is accused of utilizing kidnapping, intimidation and even murder against community members opposed to the mining project. This was highlighted internationally in 2009 with the murder of Marcelo Rivera, Ramiro ...
... of his proposed mine. Anti-mining groups have accused his company of involvement in the killings of local activists, charges he vehemently denies and for which he says there is no evidence. And the government ...
... murdered in 2009 in Cabañas, explained that when he gave testimony against those accused for the crime, he was harassed by the investigators from the DECO (the Elite Division against Organized Crime) and ...
... the cases should be given to prosecutors that have not been accused of due process violations or of manipulating investigations for political reasons, as is the case with the head of the Organized Crime ...
... April 11, 2012
Translation by SHARE staff
Original Article in Spanish
On April 10th, the Court of Specialized Sentencing of San Salvador began the trial against 10 people accused of involvement in ...
... April 17, 2012
Translation by Jan Morrill
Original Spanish Version The legal process that lead to the sentencing of six people accused of the murders of five environmentalists in the town of Trinidad, ...
... offences and the community’s grassroots group falsely accused of ties to organized crime.
The community has been militarized, and its leaders subjected to threats, harassment and smear campaigns. Several ...
... men in jail, along with the other five who originally had their case dismissed, now face detention and arson charges. Under Honduran law, these charges do not require the detention of the accused, but ...
... Amy Goodman.
We turn now to Honduras, where preliminary hearings are set to begin today for one of the men accused of murdering the indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead ...