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Guatemala, 7/13/2016
July 13, 2016
Invasion of the office of the human rights defense organization Impunity Watch. On June 21, three masked men forced their way into the office of the international organization. The assailants forced a secretary who was on her way out to open the door. They covered her eyes, taped her mouth shut and ransacked the office. Impunity Watch has worked for many years in Guatemala on issues related to human rights violations committed during the country’s long armed internal conflict.
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RRN Letter
Mexico, 7/12/2016
July 12, 2016
Murder of journalist Elidio Ramos Zárate, a crime reporter for the regional daily newspaper EL Sur. Ramos Zárate was reporting on several blockades and buses set on fire by teachers protesting in Juchitán. Ramos was the third journalist killed in Oaxaca this year.
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RRN Letter
Guatemala, 7/11/2016
July 11, 2016
Assassination of human rights defender Brenda Marleni Estrada Tambito, the Sub-Coordinator of the Legal Aid Commission of the Coalition of the Workers' Union of Guatemala(UNSITRAGUA).
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RRN Letter
Mexico, 6/26/2016
June 26, 2016
detention of Alvaro García, a leader of the Victim’s Association of Magdalena Medio (ASORVIMM), and criminalization of other community leaders in Bella Unión and El Guayabo in the municipality of Puerto Wilches in Santander Department.
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RRN Letter
Guatemala, 6/25/2016
June 25, 2016
assassination of Diego Choc Pop, an indigenous and campesino human rights defender from the San Juan Tres Ríos community in Cobán Department which he represented at the General Assembly of the Highlands Campesino Committee.
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RRN Letter
El Salvador, 6/24/2016
June 24, 2016
repeated intimidation and surveillance of Pedro José Cruz and Bertha de León, human rights lawyers involved with corruption cases
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RRN Letter
Honduras, 6/23/2016
June 23, 2016
murder of René Martínez, LGBTI rights defender and President of Comunidad Gay Sampredrana for Integral Health, an LGBTI advocacy group based in San Pedro Sula.
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RRN Letter
Honduras, 6/2/2016
June 2, 2016
attacks, harassments, and threats against members of COPINH, including COPINH leader Alexander García Sorto, COPINH General Coordinator Tomás Gómez Membreño, and international observer accompanying COPINH Giulia Fellin.
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RRN Letter
El Salvador, 6/1/2016
June 1, 2016
appeal action and requested review of prison release of María Teresa Rivera, a woman who had a miscarriage but in 2011 was sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated homicide.
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News Article
GREATLY MISSED
March 31, 2016

The InterReligious Task Force on Central America has placed posters around Cleveland reading “Greatly Missed.” These posters tell the stories of victims of police brutality and US state-sponsored violence around the world. The victims include Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, and Michael Brown—killed in recent years by police. They also include Oscar Romero, Jean Donovan, Dorothy Kazel, —disappeared and murdered by graduates of the US-based School of the Americas. Some of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School in Guerrero, Mexico are present because of unchecked military assistance to countries with human right violations. Finally, you will see the story of Berta Caceres, Nelson Garcia and Soad Nicole Ham Bustillo, each brutally murdered in Honduras in the past 12 months.

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