surveillance and intimidation of Gladys Lanza Ochoa, Coordinator of the Honduran Women’s Committee for Peace (Visitación Padilla)
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Rapid Response Network
RRN’s team of letter-writers responds to six urgent human rights cases each month to
- protect people living under threat
- demand investigations into human rights crimes
- bring human rights criminals to justice
- ensure that human rights crimes are not happening in the dark.
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RRN Letter
June 1, 2015
RRN Letter
May 16, 2015
disappearance of political journalist Bernardo Javier Cano Torres, who had been threatened by the brother of the former mayor of Iguala, Guerrero, who was removed from office for his suspected role in the disappearance and presumed execution of 43 college students in September 2014
RRN Letter
May 5, 2015
death threats to Miguel Briceño, leader of the peasant farmer community of El Porvenir in Puerto Gaitán Municipality, Meta Department.
RRN Letter
May 4, 2015
assassination of Embera Chami indigenous leader Fernando Salazar Calvo, active in artisanal miners’ union and resistance to multinational large-scale mining in Caldas Department
RRN Letter
May 3, 2015
assassination of Nasa indigenous members Mario German Valencia Vallejo, Belisario Trochez Ordóñez, Cristián David Trochez and disappearance of Berney Trochez and Wilson Trochez, all resisting illegal mining in Cauca
RRN Letter
May 2, 2015
assassination of environmental human rights defender Telésforo Odilio Pivaral González, active in the resistance against the El Escobal silver mining project in San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa
RRN Letter
May 1, 2015
unjust detention of Mayan journalist Pedro Celestino Canché Herrera, reporting on protests of local water supply system
RRN Letter
April 16, 2015
police harassment of Catholic priest and environmental rights defender Father Santos Neftalí Ruíz Martínez, President of the Environmental Committee of Cabañas.
RRN Letter
April 15, 2015
disappearances and assassinations of four students, ages 13-21, in Comayagüela: Elvin Antonio López, Darwin Josué Martínez, Diana Yareli Montoya, and 13-year-old Soad Nicolle Ham Bustillo, with clear signs of torture.
RRN Letter
April 14, 2015
unjust detention of environmental rights defenders Sotero Adalberto Villatoro, Francisco Juan Pedro and Arturo Pablo Juan of Santa Cruz Barillas municipality in Huehuetenango Department.
