Gustavo Castro, Berta Caceres Murder Witness, Returns to Mexico from Honduras teleSUR English
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Gustavo Castro, the only witness to Berta Caceres' murder and survivor of an assassination attempt, has returned to Mexico. (Facebook/Otros Mundos Chiapas)

Mexican environmental activist Gustavo Castro, the sole witness to the murder of Indigenous leader Berta Caceres and a victim in the attack, was finally allowed to leave Honduras in the early hours of Friday morning after a judge repealed the order that had kept him trapped in the country despite warnings that his life was in danger.

Castro's lawyer, Ivania Galeano, told teleSUR that his legal team made the request for him to be able to leave two weeks ago, in the aftermath of Caceres' murder on March 3. The Honduran Public Prosecutor's Office had banned Castro from leaving the country for 30 days, an order that was set to expire on Monday.



"Of course we receive this new resolution with great satisfaction because it confirms what we have been saying all this time that there is no legal justification to continue restraining Gustavo Castro in Honduras," Galeano added.

Authorities lifted restrictions on Castro's travel on Thursday, but added that they reserved the right to call Castro back to the country should the need arise.

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Related: Gustavo Castro Soto and the Rigged Investigation into Berta Cáceres’s Assassination (Global Research)

Related: Second Environmental Activist Murdered in Honduras; Government Detains Surviving, Injured Activist (Inhabitat)

Related: Mexico Has Failed Berta Caceres Murder Witness Gustavo Castro (teleSUR)

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