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#ElSalvador faces scrutiny for ‘political’ trial of five #EnvironmentalActivists
UN and legal experts have condemned prosecution of #AntiMining campaigners over alleged civil war-era killing
Nina 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 #UN 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 #MetalMining to protect the country’s dwindling #water and #farmland from further #contamination, 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 #environmental 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.'"
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"In what was perceived as a show of support for the activists, #Canada, #Germany, #France, the #UK and the #EU sent representatives to pre-trial hearings. The #Biden administration has remained silent despite 17 members of Congress condemning the arrests and urging the secretary of state, Antony #Blinken, to join calls for the charges to be dismissed."
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/09/el-salvador-trial-environmental-activists-mining#EnvironmentalActivists #CriminalizingActivism #WaterIsLife #TrumpedUpCharges #NoMiningWithoutConsent #BigMining #Corruption
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Richtig #Blinken (Abbiegen, Kreisverkehr, halten, ...): 3 von 10
In die #Engstelle einfahren, obwohl da schon Radfahrende entgegenkommen: 8 von 10
Einem #Hindernis auf der eigenen Fahrbahnseite über die Gegenfahrbahn ausweichen, obwohl dort schon Radfahrende entgegenkommen: 9 von 10
Viel zu schnell durch den #verkehrsberuhigten Bereich: 9 von 10
dabei zu Fuß Gehende anhupen und anpöbeln: 5 von 10
Auf dem #Radweg statt an der #Haltelinie anhalten: 10 von 10… (2/3) -
Verständnisfrage an die #Autofahrenden (und Mit-Fahrradfahrenden): Meiner Beobachtung nach gibt es neben den Fraktionen "vorbildlich #blinken vor dem #Richtungswechsel um anderen die gewünschte Richtung anzuzeigen" und "ja lol ey, ich weiß doch wo ich hin will" noch eine dritte #Fraktion:
Blinken erst, wenn ich in der #Kurve bin. Das kann ja mal passieren wenn ich vergessen habe den Blinker zu setzen, aber ich beobachte das sehr häufig auf dem #Fahrrad an einer #Kreuzung mit #Ampel, wo die Leute meiner Meinung nach ganz genau wissen dass sie abbiegen wollen.
Warum? Kennt das noch jemand?
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Unfolding the Genocide: #Palestine Takes on #Biden
guest: Mark Van Der Hout, counsel, Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden
Van Der Hout discusses the suit brought by #Palestinians in US federal court suing President Biden, Secretary #Blinken and Secretary #Austin for US failure to prevent, and complicity in, the unfolding #GazaGenocide
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9rcGZhLm9yZy9wcm9ncmFtL2xldHRlcnMtYW5kLXBvbGl0aWNzL2ZlZWQv/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9rcGZhLm9yZy8_cG9zdF90eXBlPWVwaXNvZGUmcD00MTQ3NzE?sa=X&ved=0CC4Qz4EHahcKEwiYv4TvoYOEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA&hl=fr_CA
#PalestineSolidarity #Gaza #CenterForConstitutionalRights #USPol #USPolitics #PalestinevBiden