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1. Honduras: Supreme Court must correct distorted ruling & free arbitrarily detained Guapinol defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste After finding that the detention of the eight Guapinol defenders imprisoned for more than 17and 26 months is arbitrary, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urges the Government ...; Created on 11 May 2021
2. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); Guapinol Resiste On February 9, 2021, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention sent a strong and clear message to Honduras: Immediately release the eight imprisoned Guapinol defenders. In its resolution ...; Created on 14 March 2021
3. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste Read complete bill, refering to arbitrary detention of Guapinol River Defenders and illegal mining in Carlos Escaleras National Park here. Introduction comes as Honduran President ...; Created on 23 February 2021
4. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); PBI Brent Patterson On the morning of February 22, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol (Freedom for the defenders of Guapinol) tweeted: “Minutes from the start of the trial of Jeremías Martínez, ...; Created on 22 February 2021
5. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... waited since Friday that the judge would finally release the defenders of the San Pedro and Guapinol rivers, located in the municipality of Tocoa, in the department of Colón. The defenders are opposed ...; Created on 28 December 2020
6. The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution: (Mining and Human Rights); "Business Human Right Legal Defense of Guapinol Water Protectors Respond to Disgraceful "Copy-Paste" Appeals Court Ruling with Constitutional Action", 24 de agosto de 2020 The eight defenders have been ...; Created on 24 August 2020
7. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... findings of a report carried out by ACAFREMIN in 2019, with the academic support of three universities in Canada, England, and the United States, found that in the case of the defenders of the Guapinol ...; Created on 20 August 2020
8. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ConexiHon Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
9. CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders: (Regional News); San José, February 27, 2020.- Today, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) argued before the Honduran Court of Appeals that the deprivation of liberty of seven defenders of the Guapinol ...; Created on 20 April 2020
10. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); ... of our people. These investors also have the absolute support of the justice system of our countries. Proof of this is the case of our Guapinol brothers (eight defenders of the Guapinol river, in northern ...; Created on 25 December 2021
11. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... criminalized by the Honduran government for defending the Guapinol River against the environmental impacts of a new iron oxide mine in the Carlos Escaleras National Park. So far, at least eight people ...; Created on 06 May 2021
12. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); Jennifer Avila y Danielle Mackey | Univision An environmental conflict marked by violence is raging in Guapinol, Honduras, where local inhabitants resist an iron oxide mine in a national park. Discreetly ...; Created on 28 November 2020
13. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); Nina Lakhani The Guardian The Guapinol community, on the country’s north coast, has become militarized in an effort to defend the river that supplies it. Gabriela Sorto has not seen or spoken to ...; Created on 07 October 2020
14. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees: (Mining and Human Rights); ... The Guapinol environmental activists - Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, José Avelino Cedillo, Orbin Naún Hernández, Kevin Alejandro Romero, Arnold Javier Aleman, Ever Alexander Cedillo, Daniel Marquez and Jeremías ...; Created on 29 September 2020
15. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... from Guapinol, Honduras, he has been held without bail in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The incarcerated men were part of a local campaign to protect water sources in their community. “He’s ...; Created on 25 September 2020
16. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); Trocaire The ‘Guapinol 8’ were detained on 1st September last year for peacefully protesting against the exploitation of their community’s natural resources by private business interests. Two daughters ...; Created on 01 September 2020
17. HONDURAS: Human rights defenders threatened by armed groups during quarantine: (Regional News); ... on multiple occasions, by phone and in person, for her to meet with Lenir Pérez, one of the owners of the Guapinol mining project, for which they are Seven land defenders were illegally detained. The leader ...; Created on 31 July 2020
18. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... of the Guapinol community in the north of the country and Inversiones Los Pinares, a mining company, is prototypical for the situation in Honduras. For years, the community has been fighting against the ...; Created on 20 April 2020
19. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... protest, the right to organize, and the right to defend rights, have been denied to defenders of the Guapinol River, who have been criminalized by the state for the benefit of corporate rights. Eight ...; Created on 20 April 2020
20. Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active: (Regional News); ... of Guapinol. In statements to the press, MLAs of LIBRE said that the resolution of the conflict with Inversiones Los Pinares company goes through a decision in the National Congress. The political lack ...; Created on 26 December 2019

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