Honduras: Berta Cáceres murder: 50 years in jail for activist's killers

[TomSea]

Berta Cáceres murder: 50 years in jail for activist's killers

Seven men found guilty over the killing of environmental activist Berta Cáceres in Honduras in 2016 have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.

Berta Cáceres was shot dead by gunmen in her home.

She had received death threats after successfully pressuring the builders of a hydro-electric dam to halt their project.

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From Mexico to Brazil, a lot of these activists, activists for Indigenous peoples, killed.