translated from Spanish: Condemned murderer of the activist raramuri Isidro Baldenegro

a judge determined Tuesday that Romeo Q. M. is guilty of the murder of the environmentalist raramuri Isidro Baldenegro López human rights defender. Although already has been the resolution of Judge Juan Javier Cornejo Paez, still remains the definition of years of conviction, in an audience of individualization of sanctions.
According to the Organization Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres (CEDEHM), this is the first murder of a human rights defender who is issued a conviction in Chihuahua, so the failure is “relevant in combating impunity This is the State with the highest number of murders of activists”.
Lee: The fight that was murdered the environmentalist Isidro Baldenegro El CEDEHM Mexican explained that at the trial demonstrated that January 15, 2017, in the community of Coloradas de la Virgen, section Baborigame, Isidro came visiting the home of his aunt and uncle where he was her attacker. The man asked activist leaving the residence and, for reasons unknown, shot him four times and fled.
Romeo Q.M. was arrested as a suspect in the murder of indigenous leader from March 8, 2017.
Isidro Baldenegro was a Rarámuri activist who dedicated his life to fight for the preservation of the forests of the Sierra Tarahumara of illegal logging. Its environmental activity, and of the peaceful defense of the forests led to be recognized internationally, in 2005, with the prestigious Goldman Prize, highest award given to defenders of the environment people.
The organization called on authorities to do “the same to ensure justice in the rest of the killings of human rights defenders who are still in impunity, through thorough, effective and impartial investigations, in order that the” responsible to be tried and are applied to corresponding sanctions provided by law.”
You can interest: criminal groups, chieftains and companies moving thousands of people in Mexico; half are indigenous to the most recent cases in Chihuahua, he recalled the CEDEHM, it is that of the Rarámuri Defender Julián Carrillo, was murdered in October 2018, whose alleged material killers were captured by the Attorney General of the State on January 26.
“We appeal to the authorities demonstrate their political will and implement the necessary measures to guarantee the life, integrity, freedom and security of all defenders of human rights of the entity, as well as the” Rarámuri community of Coloradas de la Virgen, whose members live in an environment of insecurity and violence dominated by the siege of a historic chiefdom and organized crime”, said.
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Original source in Spanish