Rapid Response Network

death threats to and surveillance of Teresa Naves and Bertha de Leon, human rights lawyers for the Study Foundation for the Application of the Law (FESPAD) who are working on a criminal lawsuit against former President Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez (1999-2004) for embezzlement.

shootings, murder and threats to indigenous human rights and campesino land rights defenders, members of the National Front for Socialism (FNLS) in Chiapas State and Mexico City and Campesino Organization Emiliano Zapata for the National Front for Socialism (OCEZ-FNLS). Shot: Matías Flores, Jesús Hernández Reyes, Rubicél Hernández García, Emilio Morales Díaz. Killed: Hector Sántiz López. This follows years of death threats by paramilitaries Los Petules, which has been blockading the OCEZ-NFLS communal land Ejido El Carrizal, in Chiapas.

unjust detention and false charges against National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) member Juan Carlos Orozco Matus, Othón Nazariega Segura, Efraín Picaso Pérez and Roberto Abel Jiménez García in Oaxaca.

death threats circulated by paramilitaries Black Eagles against human rights legal defense organizations Lawyers’ Collective José Alvear (CCAJAR) and the Yiri Castro legal firm; Diego Martínez, a member of the Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CPDH); Ruby Castaño of the Association for Solidarity in Help (ANDAS); and Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) members Adriana Cuellar, Ana Jimena Bautista, Claribeth Albor (MOVICE-Bogotá) and Blanca Díaz (MOVICE-Bogotá).

unjust detention and state harassment of human rights defenders Rocio Celeste Martínez Gregorio and Fidel Desiderio Martínez in Oaxaca

shooting of environmental defenders Marlon Loy Domínguez, Estuardo Bran Clavel, and Alex Reynoso, whose 16-year old daughter Topacio was killed (RRN letter May 24 2014) in demonstration against Tahoe Resources’ open-pit silver mine El Escobal in Jalapa Department

attempted assassination of journalist Dina Meza after months of threats and people surveilling outside her home

killing of two indigenous leaders (Rosmeldo Solorzano and Mario Leman Muller) by outside settlers in the North Carribean Coast Autonomous Region , and Nicaraguan Army attack on humanitarian caravan injuring three indigenous (Constantino Romel Frech, Obencio Downs Peralta, Rosman Flores Gonzales)

assassination of two LGBT rights advocates and members of Association for a Better Life (APUVIMEH) (Gloria Carolina Hernández Vásquez and Jorge Alberto Castillo) and patterns of intimidation by police against other APUVIMEH members (Sandra Zambrano, Cristian Daniel Cortes Sagastume, Silvio Gerardo Artola, Carlos Alberto Cardona Varela)

assassination by paramilitaries of Ernesto Guzmán , who had close associations with the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Antioquia Dept.