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Yaqui Water Rights Defender Released from Prison
Censored News
English and Dutch
Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS
http://www.denaisgazet.be/nieuws/yaqui-waterrechten-activist-vrijgelaten-uit-de-gevangenis
After a year of false imprisonment, Yaqui water rights defender Mario Luna was released from prison. Earlier a judge ordered the release of Mario, tribal secretary of Vicam Yaqui, and Mexico refused.
Censored News traveled to Sonora, Mexico, and provided live coverage when Vicam Yaqui began the long highway barricade in defense of their water rights to Rio Yaqui.
Mexico built an aqueduct to divert water from Rio Yaqui to the City of Hermosillo.
During the Vicam Yaqui highway barricade in the community, Mario was spokesman for Vicam Yaqui Pueblo. Yaqui Spokesmen Mario Luna and Fernando Jimenez Guiterrez were abducted and imprisoned.
Jimenez was released in August.
The National Indigenous Congress and Zapatistas support the defense of Yaqui water rights.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/11/yaqui-vicam-pueblo-international.html?m=1http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/11/yaqui-vicam-pueblo-international.html
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Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 29 years, serving as a writer for Navajo Times and a stringer for AP and USA Today during the 18 years she lived on the Navajo Nation. After being a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today, she was censored and terminated. She then created Censored News, focused on Indigenous Peoples and human rights, now in its fifth year.
Source: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/09/yaqui-water-rights-defender-released.html
