Guatemala
Mayan opponents of the Chixoy dam* were murdered (1980-82). Mayan Community leaders* were charged with crimes over a peaceful dam protest (2004).
El Estor mining and logging opponents killed include Rosa Pec Chub (1997); Carlos Coc Rax (1999); Erwin Haroldo Ochoa Lopez and Julio Armando Vasquez Ramirez (2000); and Helmut Rolando Ramirez and Gustavo Augusto Suchite (2001).
Environmental activists of Tropico Verde have survived repeated attempts on their lives (2007).
Opponents of the Marlin mine claim they have been intimidated and threatened, and criminal charges were brought against some protestors (2007). Mining critic Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini has been the target of numerous death threats and intimidation (2006-present).
Honduras
Anti-illegal logging activist Blanca Janeth Kawas Fernandez was murdered (1995).
Goldman Prize winner Jorge Varela, an opponent of harm to mangrove swamps caused by shrimp aquaculture, has had his life threatened repeatedly, and two of his organization's members have been killed (1999).
Carlos Escalares, opponent of environmental harm from a palm processing plant, was murdered (1997).
Father Pedro Marchetti received death threats due to his efforts to bring to justice the killers of Carlos Escaleras, and to fight environmental harm. (2001).
Environmentalist Carlos Antonio Luna Lopez, was murdered for his opposition to harmful logging and a dam that threatened indigenous people (1998).
Opponents of the Babilonia dam in Olancho received regular death threats, and leader Carlos Roberto Flores was killed by company guards (2001). At least twenty-five indigenous leaders in Olancho involved in protecting the environment have been murdered.
Father José Andrés Tamayo, Goldman Prize winner and head of the Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO), has received numerous death threats. Members of MAO have been killed each of the past several years, including Eraldo Zúniga and Róger Iván Murillo* (2006).
India
Goldman Prize winner and Narmada dam opponent Medha Patkar has been arrested, detained, and beaten, as have fellow anti-dam activists.
Opponents of a power plant in Maharashtra state were periodically beaten and detained, and the government failed to investigate the attacks (1990s).
Indonesia
Goldman Prize winner Loir Botor Dingit, Chief of the Bentian people in Borneo, was acquitted of criminal charges arising from his efforts to obtain compensation for damage to his people's land from illegal logging (1993).
Goldman Prize winner Yosepha Alomang was held and tortured for weeks for her defense of the rainforests of Irian Jaya from severe harm due to mineral exploitation (1994).
Yani Saragoa, director of an environmental organization, was sentenced to a four month jail term for defaming the reputation of a mining company, and opponents of the mine have been threatened and assaulted. Activists opposing other mining projects have faced similar intimidation lawsuits. (2007).
Kenya
Over the years, Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai was repeatedly beaten and imprisoned for her efforts to preserve Kenya's lands (1990s).
Environmentalist and journalist Argwings Odera was beaten and arrested, and eventually forced to flee his country due to his opposition to the Sondu-Miriu dam (2001).
Godofredo Garcia, leader of the anti-mining movement in Tambogrande, Peru, was shot to death by a killer whose crime remains unpunished.
The goal is…to take action immediately to stop the abuses suffered by environmentalists who are being beaten, harassed, detained, raped, tortured, and murdered.
- "Environmentalists Under Fire", a Joint Report of Amnesty International and the Sierra Club in 2000.