Pablo Choc was captured by military police El Estor. He is being held on trumped up criminal charges in a jail in Coban.
Pablo is the husband of Amalia Cac, one of 13 Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs in the landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits in Canada, for rapes, a killing and a shooting-paralyzing in 2007 and 2009, violence linked to the ‘Fenix’ nickel mine then owned by Hudbay.
This is the 3rd recent case of repression against plaintiffs in the Hudbay lawsuits. Widespread mining repression is targeting Q’eqchi’ land, environment and human rights defenders.
This repression is occurring under a ‘state of siege’ imposed by the Guatemalan regime on behalf of the illegal ‘Fenix’ mining operation, now owned by Swiss company Solway Investment Group.
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TESTIMONIO: CANADIAN MINING IN THE AFTERMATH OF GENOCIDES IN GUATEMALA
The Solway Investment Group/ Hudbay Minerals/ INCO related resistance struggle is one of four community defense struggles documented and analyzed in TESTIMONIO, edited and co-written by UNBC’s Professor Catherine Nolin & Rights Action’s Grahame Russell.
More information at Rights Action archives: https://rightsaction.org/hudbay-minerals-archives
Emergency Response Fund
Rights Action is sending emergency human rights funds to people we have long worked with in the Solway Investment Group impacted region, including the plaintiffs in the Hudbay Minerals lawsuits, the Gremial de Pescadores y Campesinos, and the Ancestral Council of Q’eqchi’ people.
Funds are used to:
- Help people who have fled the military state of siege in El Estor
- Replace iphones and communication devices that were lost or illegally confiscated
- Support families whose bank accounts are frozen or family members were forced to flee military crackdown
- Help mobilize human rights activists to try and reach El Estor to bear witness
- Prepare for legal defense costs related to abusive-trumped up criminal charges
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