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July 2011

STOP PRESS!

AFTER SIX YEARS MONTERRICO METALS FINALLY AGREES ON COMPENSATION FOR TORTURE VICTIMS IN PERU After six years of legal wrangling the English mining corporation Monterrico Metals has finally agreed to pay compensation to thirty-three protesters who were arrested, detained and brutally tortured for three days at the mining site operated …

STOP PRESS: ANTI-MINING ACTIVIST KILLED IN EL SALVADOR

On the 16th of June, 2011 police found the body of Juan Francisco Duran Ayala, age 30, a university student and volunteer with the Cabañas Environmental Committee, who was reported missing by his family and friends on the 3rd of June. They all say, however, that according to the medical …