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Free the Santa Marta 5 Legal Defense Fund
Salvadoran organizations decried the January 2023 arrests of 5 community leaders from Santa Marta as "an act of persecution and political vengeance, in the framework of a state offensive ... and [that could also] be related to the current government's intentions to resume mining exploitation projects."
The community "finds it outrageous and suspicious that ... more than 40 years after the atrocities committed against the civilian population of Santa Marta ... [the Salvadoran state seeks to] re-victimize the same community in something that seems to all appearances to be a political vendetta."
Over 250 organizations from 30 countries have issued statements questioning "whether the Attorney General’s true motivation is to attempt to silence these Water Defenders" and calling on the Salvadoran government to drop the charges.
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