He fought to stop the forest being felled. The price was 30 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit The UN has called the detention of Pablo López Alavez ‘arbitrary’, while human rights organisations say his sentence is part of a systematic and alarming pattern of criminalisation of Mexico’s environ...

He fought to stop the forest being felled. The price was 30 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #Mexico #EnvironmentActivists #EnvironmentDefenders #IllegalLogging #deforestation #ClimateChange #Indigenous

More than 3 #environmentdefenders killed each week protecting their land, forests and rivers http://bit.ly/1PybmD2