13 February 2014 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
The coordinator of the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) Bertha Caceres told Real World Radio that the solidarity at national and international level was key for the definitive dismissal ruled on Monday on the case led by the Santa Barbara Court, Santa Barbara municipality. Read more
15 January 2014 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
The Appeals Court of Comayagua, Honduras, overturned a judicial ruling of September that established a jail sentence for the Coordinator of the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), Bertha Cáceres, and alternative measures for two other members of the organization, Tomás Gómez and Aureliano Molina. Read more
18 September 2013 | Testimonies | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras
The long list of accusations against the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) reached a turning point on Friday when the Attorney General’s Office and DESA corporation demanded a jail sentence for the organization’s coordinator Berta Cáceres and alternative measures for two other members of the organization. Read more
16 July 2013 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
On Monday July 15th, while the Lenca community of Rio Blanco, in Honduras, marked 106 days of resistance to the building of Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam, the Army indiscriminately shot at the demonstrators killing one of the leaders of the resistance, Tomas Garcia, and seriously injuring his son (photo). Read more
14 June 2013 | Chronicles | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
Truth won over the military and political persecution of Berta Caceres, leader of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), who had the accusations against her overturned, although the trial is not finished yet. Read more
13 June 2013 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Social activists at risk
“There is a policy to occupy and evict land. Berta Caceres is defending the lands that have been occupied by transnational corporations with the aid of the Honduran army”, said Juan Almendares of Friends of the Earth Honduras. Read more
12 June 2013 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Social activists at risk
24 hours after the trial against Berta Caceres, leader of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), tens of organizations and nearly a thousand people have sent a petition to the Honduran authorities to demand the case be overturned Read more
11 June 2013 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Social activists at risk
“It is urgent that the international community expresses itself in favor of the respect of indigenous people’s right to land, their human rights and the physical integrity of the Rio Blanco communities”, said the Lenca feminist activist and leader of COPINH, Berta Caceres. Read more
27 May 2013 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Social activists at risk
On Friday 24, on the 53rd day of the roadblock in Rio Branco carried out by the Lenca indigenous communities in rejection to the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, two members of COPINH were arrested: Bertha Caceres and indigenous journalist Tomas Gomez, in a context of repression against popular organizations in that Central American country since the coup d’ etat of 2009. Read more
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