
Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador
Critics decry ‘politically motivated’ decision to revisit civil war-era charges against leaders of anti-mining campaign Five Salvadorian environmental defenders who were exonerated of bogus civil war charges will face retrial this week amid growing evidence of political interference. Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Antonio Pacheco and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega,…