Family of slain Honduran activist demands maximum jail term for collaborator 2 minutes read
Tegucigalpa, Aug 3 (EFE).- The family of slain Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres demanded Tuesday that Roberto David Castillo be given the maximum sentence of 25 years in prison for his role in the murder.
Cáceres, co-founder of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and winner of the Goldman prize for environmental defenders, was shot dead on March 2, 2016 at her home in La Esperanza. A guest in her house, the Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro, was also shot but played dead and survived.
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Family of slain Honduran activist demands maximum jail term for collaborator
Students of the National Autonomous University of Honduras hold an image of murdered Honduran environmentalist Berta Caceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 02 March 2017. EPA-EFE FILE/GUSTAVO AMADOR
Bertha Zuniga (L), daughter of activist Berta Caceres (R, in frame) and coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, speaks during a press conference at the Casa de la Memoria in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 10 September 2019. EPA-EFE FILE/Esteban Biba
Victor Fernandez, lawyer for the family of Berta Caceres, offers statements to the press today, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 03 August 2021. EPA-EFE/Gustavo Amador
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Honduras/Director of Berta Cáceres’ assassination found guilty
By Martha Grevatt posted on July 12, 2021
Roberto David Castillo Mejía, accused by prosecutors of “masterminding” the assassination of beloved Honduran environmentalist and Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, was found guilty of homicide July 5 by a three-judge panel.
Feminist Encampment Viva Berta, set up and maintained during the trial of Roberto David Castillo Mejía, who was found guilty of homicide in the assassination of Berta Cáceres. Credit: COPINH
Cáceres was the leader of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). At the time of her killing, March 3, 2016, COPINH was resisting the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam project on the Galcarque River, a major source of drinking water and a sacred waterway for the Indigenous Lenca people.
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