The man convicted last year of co-ordinating the killing of Honduran environmental activist Berta Caceres was sentenced Monday to more than 22 years in prison, upsetting the victim s family because the penalty was significantly below the maximum.
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Honduras convicts former executive in activist s murder
US-trained ex-army officer Robert David Castillo is the latest suspect to be found guilty in the murder of environmental and Indigenous rights defender Berta Caceres.
Robert David Castillo was in-charge of a $50 million hydroelectric dam project in indigenous territories of Honduras.
A court in Honduras found a former top executive at a hydroelectric company guilty on Monday of collaboration in the 2016 murder of a prominent environmental activist.
Roberto David Castillo, a US-trained former army intelligence officer, was the eighth person convicted for the murder of Berta Caceres.
Initially accused of being the mastermind behind the murder, he was found guilty of being the co-perpetrator.