Korea
Goldman Prize winner Yul Choi, founder of his country's first environmental organization, was put under house arrest for highlighting the problems with nuclear waste disposal (1988).
Malaysia
Goldman Prize winner Harrison Ngau Laing, a Dayak Kayan tribe member and environmental leader, was put under house arrest for almost two years and spent sixty days in jail for his opposition to rampant logging in Sarawak (1987). Other protestors were jailed and held incommunicado.
Mexico
Rodolfo Montiel*, Isidro Baldenegro*, and Felipe Arreaga* are among the activists who opposed illegal logging who have been subject to fabricated criminal charges. All three have won international prizes.
Aldo Zamora* was killed and his brother Misael Zamora* was seriously wounded in an attack by the sons of local loggers. Along with their father, the young men were prominent in the fight against illegal logging in a nearby protected area (2007).
Anti-logging activist Albertano Penaloza and two of his sons were seriously wounded, and two other of his sons were killed, in a single attack on his family (2004).
Juventino Gonzalez, who organized citizens to protect a park from illegal logging in Michoacan, was beaten and threatened, and two fellow activists were jailed (1988).
Fidencio Lopez, mayor of San Mateo Rio Hondo, was shot to death for speaking out against logging interests (1992).
Dr. Javier Mojica, the leader of an environmental campaign protesting the construction of a shopping mall in Acapulco's only park, was beaten severely in his own home (1992).
Goldman Prize winner Edwin Bustillos, an agricultural engineer, survived three attempts on his life, and suffered from severe back and head injuries incurred in the attacks (1990s).
The lawyer for an anti-mining organization in Cerro de San Pedro was physically attacked. Members of the organization have been charged with crimes due to their opposition to the mine (2006).
Nigeria
Goldman Prize winner Ken Saro-Wiwa, a well-known writer and president of an organization that defended the environmental human rights of the Ogoni people, was hanged along with eight other Ogoni leaders on trumped-up criminal charges brought by the Nigerian military (1995).
Peru
Local official Don Julio García Agapito was murdered in retaliation for stopping a shipment of illegally cut mahogany in Madre de Dios (2008).
Campesino Isidro Llanos was shot and killed during protests against the expansion of a mine (2006).
Catholic priest Marco Arana and members of the environmental and social justice organization he founded have been the target of death threats and intimidation as a result of their opposition to the harmful effects of large-scale mining (2006).
Godofredo Garcia, leader of a local organization opposed to mining in Tambogrande, was murdered at the height of the conflict (2001). Eight men briefly kidnapped the seventeen year old daughter of local businessman Francisco Ojeda, who led the anti-mining group after Garcia's death (2001).
Leaders of the opposition to mining* in Tambogrande and Rio Blanco have been charged criminally for their organization of protests and local votes on the projects.
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.