Antimining activists cleared of ‘farce’ murder charges in El Salvador
via news.mongabay.com
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An El Salvador court has acquitted five community leaders and antimining activists from Santa Marta, a municipality in the southeastern department of Usulután, of charges tied to a 1989 kidnapping and murder during the country’s civil war. Human rights groups have called the prosecution politically motivated, suggesting it was brought against the activists in retaliation […]