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Relatives of Slain Indigenous Leaders in Peru Call for Punishment of Perpetrators (Article in Spanish)

January 22nd, 2024EFE

The widows of Saweto seek justice (Article in Spanish)

November 26th, 2023La República

Nine years without justice: The voices of Saweto’s widows in the resumption of the oral trial (Article in Spanish)

November 26th, 2023Ojo Público

Saweto Case: Judiciary Issues Arrest Warrant Against Two Suspects (Article in Spanish)

November 5th, 2023Inforegión

Saweto Case: Judiciary Issues Arrest Warrant Against Suspects in the Murder of Indigenous Leader (Article in Spanish)

November 4th, 2023El Comercio

Saweto Case: Judiciary Orders Arrest of Suspects in the Murder of 4 Indigenous Leaders (Article in Spanish)

November 2nd, 2023Andina - Agencia Peruana de Noticias

Saweto Case: Promptness Demanded in the New Trial (Article in Spanish)

November 2nd, 2023SERVINDI

Ucayali: A new oral trial begins in the Saweto case for the murder of indigenous leaders (Article in Spanish)

November 2nd, 2023Andina - Agencia Peruana de Noticias

“Saweto Case: New oral trial begins against 2 individuals involved in the murders of 4 indigenous leaders.”

November 2nd, 2023La República

“Saweto Case: New oral trial begins for the murder of the four Indigenous leaders who fought against illegal logging.”

November 2nd, 2023Infobae

New oral trial begins for the Saweto case involving the murder of Indigenous leaders (Article in Spanish)

November 1st, 2023Ojo Peru

Saweto Case: New oral trial begins for the murder of Indigenous leaders (Article in Spanish)

November 1st, 2023El Comercio

New Trial for ‘Saweto Case’: AIDESEP States It Will Be a ‘Public Examination’ of the Judicial System (Article in Spanish)

November 1st, 2023SPDA Actualidad Ambiental

New oral trial begins for the Saweto case regarding the murder of Indigenous leaders (Article in Spanish)

November 1st, 2023News Qorilab

Impunity in the Saweto case persists: ‘Nine years of seeking justice, and we have nothing’ (Article in Spanish)

August 31st, 2023Mongabay LATAM

Saweto Case: Judiciary Nullifies Conviction of Defendants in the Murder of Four Asháninka Leaders (Article in Spanish)

August 30th, 2023La República

Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of four Indigenous leaders

February 17th, 2023The Guardian

After Eight Years the Oral Trial Began for Assassination of Saweto’s Four Indigenous Leaders (Article in Spanish)

June 20th, 2022Actualidad Ambiental

Ucayali: Oral Trial Hearing Begins for Saweto Case (Article in Spanish)

June 20th, 2022Vigilante

Saweto: The Ashéninka Community Widows’ Endless Battle Against Impunity (Article in Spanish)

June 16th, 2022Mongabay

‘They’re all dead.’ Fighting for Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Peruvian Amazon

April 21st, 2022Miami Herald

Saweto Case: Eight Years of Waiting for Oral Trial for the Death of Four Indigenous Leaders (Article in Spanish)

April 6th, 2022Ojo Público

Saweto Proceedings: Eight Years Since the Death of Edwin Chota (Article in Spanish)

February 17th, 2022Caretas

Saweto Case: Awaiting Opening Statements After Eight Years (Article in Spanish)

January 30th, 2022Caretas

The Saweto Case Will Have a Trial in Peru, Six Years After the Killing of Indigenous People (Article in Spanish)

June 22nd, 2021SWI

Saweto Case: Prosecutor Presenting Case Against Murderers of Indigenous Leaders Removed from Office (Article in Spanish)

March 6th, 2020Ojo Público

‘Unprecedented’ Murder Charges for Loggers in Deaths of Indigenous Activists

October 31st, 2019The Guardian

Peru Investigates the Killing of an Environmental Advocate

September 10th, 2014New York Times

Three Years After the Tragedy of Saweto, Where is the Justice and Security?

September 8th, 2017Mongabay

Loggers Illegally Destroy Her Home And Threaten Her With Death, But She Came To Paris Anyway

December 10th, 2015Think Progress

The Widows of Saweto

December 8th, 2014The Verb

Quadruple Homicide in Peruvian Amazon Puts Criminal Logging in Spotlight

September 12th, 2014National Geographic

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The Saweto trials cannot lead to another missed opportunity for justice in the murder of four Peruvian Indigenous leaders

November 16th, 2023Global Witness

Peru: ABA CHR Intends to Monitor Retrial related to the 2014 killings of Environmental Defenders from the Alto Tamaya-Saweto Community

November 1st, 2023American Bar Association Center for Human Rights

Justice Eludes the Saweto Case: A Call for Global Solidarity

September 20th, 2023Rainforest Foundation US

Daughter of Slain Indigenous Activist Speaks Out in the Miami Herald

April 22nd, 2022Rainforest Foundation US

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Saweto Testifies Before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

October 6th, 2020Rainforest Foundation US

Saweto, Peru: Ending Impunity in the Rainforest

October 31st, 2019Rainforest Foundation US

Ashaninka of Rio Amônia and Saweto Against Illegal Loggers at Border Peru-Brazil

November 9th, 2018Environmental Justice Atlas

Peru Refuses to Prosecute Murders of Indigenous Leaders

September 29th, 2017Shorthand Social

After 10 Years of Struggle, Asheninka Community of Alto Tamayo-Saweto Gains Title to Ancestral Lands

August 25th, 2015Rainforest Foundation US

Peru Passes Resolution to Title Saweto after Murders

January, 2015Upper Amazon Conservancy

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