Peru: Violence Targets Anti-Mining Activists
On Wednesday 2nd of December a new violent confrontation between local residents and police occurred in the town of Cajas Canchaque, district of Carmen de la Frontera, in the province of Huancabamba, northern Peru. During the confrontation two residents died by police fire: Cástulo Correa Huayama, 39 years old, and Vicente Romero Ramírez, 52 years [...]
MINING CONFLICT IN PERÚ LEAVES TWO DEAD
Press release from LMN member group CATAPA On Wednesday 2nd of December in the afternoon, a new violent confrontation between local residents and police occurred in the town of Cajas Canchaque, district of Carmen de la Frontera, in the province of Huancabamba (Piura, Northern Peru). During the confrontation two residents died by police fire: Cástulo [...]
Court Upholds Injunction by Peruvian Torture Victims Freezing Assets of British Mining Company
Peru Support Group and CAFOD Statement On Friday 16th October a High Court decision upheld the injunction to freeze the assets of British mining company Monterrico Metals. Mrs Justice Gloster ruled that the Claimants had a ‘good arguable case’ against Monterrico and that company assets of £5 million should remain frozen. See http://www.perusupportgroup.org.uk/pdfs/Statement%20on%20MM%20Judgement%2023%20Oct%2009.pdf.
Peru: Mining company faces torture allegations
As alleged victims of torture in Peru bring an injunction against British mining company Monterrico Metals, NGOs are calling for foreign victims of UK corporate abuses to have better access to justice in English courts. In written evidence to the ongoing inquiry on business and human rights by the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights, [...]
News about Monterrico Metals’ Rio Blanco project, Peru
From the Vicaría del Medio Ambiente de Jaén VIMA 31 March 2009 Charge of terrorism dropped again On the third of March 2009, the provincial department of the public prosecutor in Piura dropped the charges against the 35 accused of terrorism (amongst them mayors, leaders of local communities, defenders of human rights and environmentalists). All [...]
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