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. …
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Peru: Mining company faces torture allegations
Last updated: Jun 30, 2009
News about Monterrico Metals’ Rio Blanco project, Peru
Last updated: Apr 8, 2009
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 …
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Peru blames police in copper mine torture case
Last updated: Mar 25, 2009
Peruvian prosecutors have accused police of torturing protesters at a mining camp in 2005 but cleared a British-Chinese metals company and its security firm of wrongdoing.
Lawyers for Fedepaz, the rights group that filed the …
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Peru: Death threats against journalist who exposed Monterrico
Last updated: Feb 16, 2009
Journalist Julio César Vásquez Calle is pursuing a complaint to the Piura region prosecutor’s office against police officers and mining company security guards he claims tortured him while he was reporting on a protest in …
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Photographs confirm torture of peasants opposing Monterrico Metals in Peru
Last updated: Feb 9, 2009
Peru: National Coordinator for Human Rights says new photographs confirm torture of peasants who protested against Majaz Mining (now Río Blanco Copper), owned by London-registered Monterrico Metals plc
See also http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/329692…
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