Activist Who Witnessed Assassination of Berta Caceres Barred from Returning to Mexico Democracy Now!
go to original March 9, 2016

Honduras is still reeling from last week’s assassination of Berta Cáceres, one of the country’s most well-known environmental and indigenous leaders. She was gunned down in her home early Thursday, less than a year after she won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Cáceres is at least the 110th environmental or land defender to be killed in Honduras since 2010 in the wake of a U.S.-supported coup.

At the time of her assassination, Cáceres was with Gustavo Castro Soto, another well-known environmental campaigner and coordinator of Friends of the Earth Mexico. He witnessed the shooting and sustained two bullet wounds.

Now, human rights activists say the Honduran government is detaining Castro without cause and refusing him permission to return to his native Mexico.

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Related: Women Rally at U.N. to Demand Justice for Slain Honduran Environmentalist Berta Cáceres (Democracy Now!)

Related: Amnesty International Says Honduras Made Errors in Investigating Activist Killing (Fox News Latino)

Related: Thousands Attend Funeral for Berta Cáceres, Mexican NGOs Demand Safety for Witness to Murder (FSRN.org)

Related: Mexico Human Rights: Alarming Increase in Attacks on Activists: National Commission (Mexico Voices)

Related: Berta Cáceres, Indigenous Environmental Leader, Murdered in Honduras (People's World)

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