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1. Arrests, harassment of environmental defenders amid COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... constrained by lockdowns, arbitrary arrests, and other heavy-handed measures supposedly meant for containing the outbreak of the infectious disease. On March 19, 2020, indigenous people leader Gloria ...; Created on 21 April 2020
2. International community calls for release of El Salvador antimining activists: (Pacific Rim/OceanaGold); ... look at the steps the government is taking to renew a defunct mining sector. “We are concerned these arrests are politically motivated and intended to silence the overwhelming opposition to mining in ...; Created on 20 December 2023
3. International Week of Action Free the Santa Marta 5: (Free the Santa Marta 5); ... are not able to denounce the case publicly because the judge has imposed a rare gag order. These arbitrary arrests are deeply concerning as they violate both El Salvador’s internationally recognized Peace ...; Created on 08 April 2023
4. El Salvador’s Historic Metal Mining Ban Is in Danger: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... motives behind the arrests. Furthermore, the five organizers are being prosecuted by a specialized war-crimes team set up by Bukele, raising worries that the ruling may be dictated from above for political ...; Created on 06 April 2023
5. Salvadoran environmental defenders detained for decades-old crimes: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); The Guardian Nina Lakhani Activists worry the arrests are a move by the cash-strapped government to open the country to now banned metals mining Five prominent environmental defenders who played a crucial ...; Created on 04 April 2023
6. Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... victims. “The arrests are politically motivated as they seek to silence these water defenders and to demobilize community opposition at this critical moment,” the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive ...; Created on 03 April 2023
7. 250+ Groups Call On El Salvador to Drop Charges Against Water Defenders: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... fear of water defenders in El Salvador. And, this is why there is now a global outcry over these arrests." #SantaMarta | Diversos colectivos ambientalistas están afuera del Centro Judicial Isidr ...; Created on 20 January 2023
8. Scientists, fishers say new mining deals to cause more damage than good: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... threats and intimidation, illegal arrests, harassment lawsuits, and forced displacement. For instance, in April last year, the Philippine police nabbed Roland Pulido, chairman of Didipio Earth Saver’s ...; Created on 24 May 2021
9. Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support: (Mining and Human Rights); ... are also responsible for beatings, kidnappings, arbitrary arrests, and killings in local communities. They frequently undermine indigenous self-determination, as national and regional governments give ...; Created on 07 May 2021
10. Swiss mining transnational Glencore in the Andes: (General mining reports ); ... and 2020. In 2012 the population mobilized and was violently repressed by the police, resulting in the deaths of four people, dozens of injuries and several arbitrary arrests. Subsequent complaints and ...; Created on 22 April 2021
11. Social organizations reject militarization in five municipalities of Guatemala: (Regional News); ... rights. In addition, this decree allows arrests and interrogations without warrants or any sort of justification. The new measures will be implemented in the municipalities of El Estor, Livingston, ...; Created on 20 July 2020
12. Global protest launched against OceanaGold mine in the Philippines: (OceanaGold Philippines); ... pollution of rivers, unjust conditions of workers, illegal arrests, and red-tagging. The group also furthered that the entire Filipino people’s sovereign rights to their natural resources have been undermined ...; Created on 02 September 2019
13. Frustration around the Latest Ruling in the Cases of Violence towards Environmental Leaders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... out thorough investigations in Cabañas, and that while there have been some arrests in the cases of murdered environmentalist Marcelo Rivera, and now the Trinidad victims, the fact that death threats, ...; Created on 18 April 2012
14. Crime in Cabañas: (Mining and Human Rights); ... have there been arrests due to the threats. Meanwhile the attorney general is being strongly criticized by his slowness in carrying forward the case. There is talk of powerful economic sectors interested ...; Created on 20 March 2012
15. The Environmental and Social Costs of Pacific Rim in El Salvador: (Mining and Human Rights); ... entire country. To date there have been four anti-mining activist murdered and numerous cases of death threats and intimidation. In some of the cases there have been arrests of those hired to carry ...; Created on 29 February 2012

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