POPULAR RESISTANCE.ORG: BERTA CACERES TRIAL BEGINS, EIGHT SUSPECTS STAND TRIAL

22/10/2018

The plaintiff team had delayed the process demanding the inclusion of key-evidence they claim, the Public Ministry is withholding. The long-awaited trial against eight people accused of killing the Honduran feminist, and environmental activist Berta Caceres in 2016, started at 9 a.m. on Saturday after being postponed several times and without her family’s private attorneys, as informed by the Public Ministry (MP).

DEMOCRACY NOW: Honduras: Lawyers for Victim Berta Cáceres Removed from Murder Trial

In Honduras, a court has removed lawyers representing the slain environmentalist Berta Cáceres from the trial of eight men accused of carrying out her murder. The victim’s lawyers had called for the three judges trying the case to be replaced, accusing them of bias, abuse of authority and of violating due process by prohibiting evidence. But on Friday the judges…