02/10/2020
AQUI en español The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the legal team and the Berta Cáceres’ family make the following statement: There is an imminent danger of escape on the part of Mr. David Castillo due to the filing of two habeas corpus appeals promoted by his legal defense and the organization JOPRODEH.These appeals seek…
01/10/2020
01/10/2020 (AQUI en Español) The Gualcarque Fraud case has reached the stage of oral argument in the public trial. The community of Río Blanco, represented by COPINH, is the direct victim of the acts of corruption that established the Agua Zarca project but have been excluded from the proceedings. This exclusion was decreed by the Court of Appeals on Corruption…
28/09/2020
AQUI en Español The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras - COPINH - to the national and international community expresses the following 1. David Castillo together with the Atala Zablah family, driven by the objective of benefiting economically, created a criminal structure that committed countless crimes–from fraud and corruption for the supposed generation of "renewable" energy, serious…
11/09/2020
Berta Caceres´ Cause - September 11, 2020. (AQUI en Español) David Castillo's legal defense is convinced of his guilt. The desperate actions of the accused David Castillo's legal representation demonstrate his clear conviction of his client's guilt. In this sense, the campaign of disinformation they carry out on the case and the unscrupulous attacks on the victims, social organizations and…
10/09/2020
COPINH in response to the defamation of David Castillo's Defense clarifies the following: (AQUI es Español) 1. At no moment have members of COPINH removed any judicial file related to the process being followed against Mr. David Castillo as part of the criminal structure that murdered Berta Cáceres. 2. The legal representation of the victims, in the exercise of the…
07/09/2020
Berta Caceres´Cause (AQUI en Español) The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras COPINH, together with the legal team of the Berta Cáceres cause, communicates the following to national and international press: Today, the defense of Mr. David Castillo has presented a recusal against the Tribunal that is hearing the case for the murder of Berta Cáceres. This…
The pretrial detention of David Castillo has not run out Today, the accused, David Castillo, will have a hearing to review his pretrial detention measures. fo Although the Honduran Code of Criminal Procedure states that after two and a half years the accused must be released, Article 181 establishes that: "Within this period, the time that the delays produced by…
27/08/2020
(AQUI en Español) The decision of the order to have the trial against David Castillo is a step in the search for justice, truth, reparation and non-repetition for COPINH, Berta Cáceres’ family and the Lenca people. Impunity hangs over the search for justice. Great economic and political powers seek to keep the truth of the crime against Berta Cáceres silent…
25/08/2020
Cause Berta Cáceres. August 24, 2020. (AQUI en Español) Honduran justice as a rule should have judged David Castillo for his involvement as co-author in the murder of Berta Cáceres before March 2, 2020. However, almost two and a half years after the beginning of the process and four and a half years after the crime, there has been no…
