Salvadoran Court Slammed for Upholding Charges Against Environmental Activists

Targeted by the right-wing government, the “Santa Marta 5” helped win a 2017 ban on metals mining in El Salvador.

Human rights defenders on Wednesday condemned a Salvadoran court’s decision to uphold what critics say are politically motivated murder and illicit association charges against five environmental activists. Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Teodoro Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega were arrested in January 2023 and accused of murdering María Inés...

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