Photo: Vigil for slain journalists and media workers in front of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) building in Ottawa; August 11, 2025. Photo by Brent Patterson.

Speaking about the targeted airstrike murder on Sunday August 10 of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, United Nations Special Rapporteur Irene Khan has told Democracy Now!: “There are some — anything between 26 to 30 journalists who have been targeted in this campaign of assassination [by the Israeli military].”

Khan added: “The [Geneva] convention gives journalists civilian status, which means that, like all other civilians, they should not be targeted during the war. The problem is the journalists are not just civilians. …[But] they are much more like humanitarian workers. And journalists need to be recognized as humanitarian workers. There needs to be — I believe there needs to be additional protection given to them, because it shows how vulnerable they are, on the one hand, to attacks, and, on the other hand, how important their work is to the rest of the world, to any peace process, to any attempt to have accountability and justice for the victims.”

Canada on the targeting of journalists

So far, what we have seen publicly is Global Affairs Canada posting a social media message that says: “Canada condemns the killing (of) Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza. Journalists are civilians — targeting them is unacceptable. We call for full accountability and for the protection of media everywhere.”

Voices at Risk: Canada’s Guidelines on Supporting Human Rights Defenders states: “Journalists and other media professionals often face the same risks as HRDs precisely because of their work. Because they criticize authority figures, report on criminal activity, and speak the truth, they are often targeted by governments, paramilitaries, armed groups, criminal organizations, and security personnel.”

The Voices at Risk guidelines further note as a “best practice”: “Missions could organize regular meetings with journalists, both foreign and local, to gather information about their situations and other local issues.”

Up to 270+ journalists and media workers killed

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has noted: “With Sunday’s killing of six journalists, 192 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israeli-Gaza war on October 7, 2023. At least 184 of those journalists were Palestinians killed by Israel.” A spokesperson for UN Secretary General António Guterres has stated that at least 242 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 2023. An Al Jazeera has reported: “Nearly 270 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in 22 months of war – or about 13 journalists every month – according to a tally by Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2022.”

Outside of Gaza (82) and Lebanon (3), CPJ documented the killing of 39 other journalists and media workers in 16 nations, with the deadliest being Sudan (6), Pakistan (6), Mexico (5), Syria (4), Myanmar (3), Iraq (3), and Haiti (2) during 2024. 

Human rights defenders killed

The Dublin-based organization Front Line Defenders (the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders) has also documented the killing of 31 Palestinian human rights defenders in 2023 and 2024.

They state “those defending the right to health and the right to life as doctors, nurses, or ambulance workers, those exposing and documenting war crimes as journalists, and those providing humanitarian support as volunteers or employees of aid agencies were all specifically targeted by Israeli bombs or guns.”

Arms embargo now

UN experts have stated that “continuing to support Israel materially or politically, especially via arms transfers, and the provision of private military and security services risks complicity in genocide and other serious international crimes.”

Peace Brigades International-Canada continues to call on Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Canadian government to immediately suspend any transfers of weapons, ammunition and military components to Israel and to stop any military assistance or support that is likely to violate international humanitarian law.

PBI-Canada has also signed the Arms Embargo Now statement that says: “As the catastrophe wrought by Israel’s continued assault on Gaza grows, Canadian civil society organizations across multiple sectors are calling on the Canadian government to immediately suspend all trade in arms and military technology with Israel.”

Vigil in Ottawa, August 11, 2025.

March in Ottawa, August 12, 2025.

Al Jazeera feature article (December 31, 2024).

Photo: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, Wet’suwet’en land defender Gaylene Morris of the Likhsamasyu Clan, Gitxsan hereditary leader Gwii Lok’im Gibuu, Jesse Stoeppler, and Dogwood Northern B.C. coordinator Kai Nagata; Gatineau, Quebec, July 17, 2025. Photo by Brent Patterson, PBI-Canada.

A media release from Oil Change International dated July 17, 2025, states: “Complaints were submitted this morning by  Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks and Deputy Chief of the Hagwilget Village Council Gwii Lok’im Gibuu (Jesse Stoeppler).”

On July 25, Canada’s National Observer further reported: “Wet’suwet’en hereditary Chief Na’Moks filed a complaint last week with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation’s (JBIC) independently appointed environmental examiners — tasked with investigating alleged environmental wrongdoing — detailing environmental harms and human rights abuses from the construction of the Coastal Gaslink project that transports fracked gas from the Montney region in [northeast British Columbia] to LNG Canada’s export terminal [in Kitimat, British Columbia]. The bank loaned US $850 million to the project in 2021.”

The filing reads: “Despite the Wet’suwet’en having repeatedly rejected the project, JBIC proceeded to approve financing for the LNG Canada terminal and the associated Coastal GasLink pipeline without securing proper [free, prior and informed consent] … a fundamental breach of both Canadian law and international human rights standards. [We call on JBIC to] immediately suspend any further financing.”

Compressor stations to be built on Wet’suwet’en territory

The National Observer article further highlights: “If LNG Canada Phase 2 is built, expanding export capacity at the site will involve increasing storage tanks, new processing facilities and more tanker traffic through vulnerable coastal waters. But it will also mean increasing the amount of gas fracked in northeastern BC, and sending more gas through the Coastal GasLink pipeline. To do that, additional compressor stations will need to be built to squeeze more gas into the pipeline.”

In June 2024, the Canadian Press reported: “Hereditary chiefs say two of the proposed compressor stations that would be a part of Coastal GasLink’s Phase 2 would be located on their traditional territory. They said they have concerns about the proximity to important cultural sites, additional years of construction traffic and the long-term climate impact of expanding Canada’s LNG footprint.”

And this past April 2025, CBC News reported the “proposed Phase 2 of the project would increase the export [of fracked gas] amount to 28 million tonnes annually [from 14 million tonnes annually].”

“We’re living in a petrostate being enforced by a police state.” – Chief Na’Moks

Photo: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) C-IRG officers during the November 2021 raid on Wet’suwet’en territory. Photo by Michael Toledano.

Amnesty International has previously noted that it has “determined that the tactics used by the RCMP during the four militarized raids on Wet’suwet’en land defenders were disproportionate to the situation they were responding to, as there are no reports of defenders using violence or representing a threat.”

Amnesty International has documented: “More than 75 Wet’suwet’en and other land defenders were arrested, solely for exercising their Indigenous rights and their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly.”

In 2025, a British Columbia court ruled the RCMP’s actions were “grossly offensive, racist, and dehumanizing.”

Peace Brigades International-Canada continues to call for the abolition of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), now rebranded as the Community-Response Unit (CRU-BC).

We also continue to follow the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) systemic investigation of the actions of the RCMP C-IRG on Wet’suwet’en and other territories that was initiated more than two years ago.

Oil Change International notes that the Wet’suwet’en complaint against the JBIC “highlights systemic failures, including … Militarized raids by Canadian police, arbitrary arrests, and documented human rights violations against Indigenous land defenders opposing the pipeline as highlighted in the Canadian Screen Award winning documentary YINTAH.”

PBI-Canada and PBI-Colombia visited Wet’suwet’en territory in June 2025 with Colombian human rights defenders. PBI-Canada has also visited the yintah in May 2022 and November 2021. It is our intention to return in October 2025 to observe the sentencing hearing of three Indigenous land defenders.

We join with our friends at Amnesty International who have demanded “the Crown withdraw charges against land defenders and end the militarized enforcement of private industry interests on Indigenous land.”

Further reading: Indigenous Leaders in Canada Demand Accountability from JBIC and Mitsubishi for Complicity in LNG Canada Violations (Oil Change International, July 17, 2025).

Photo: PBI-Canada, PBI-Colombia and the Forest Peoples Programme visit Wet’suwet’en territory, June 2025. Photo by Nick Gottlieb.

Photo: Henschel arrested at CANSEC, May 29, 2024.

More than a year ago, on May 29, 2024, David Mikha’El Henschel, a representative of the German weapons company Rheinmetall, assaulted a Palestinian woman outside the CANSEC arms show at the EY Centre in Ottawa organized by the Canadian Association of Defence Industries (CADSI).

Instagram post by Ottawa Palestinian Youth Movement.

CBC News now reports: “A Swiss man has pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman at an anti-war, pro-Palestinian demonstration in Ottawa during the 2024 CANSEC conference…”

The article continues: “According to court documents, he is an employee of Rheinmetall Waffe Munition Schweiz AG (RWMSchweiz AG), an ammunition manufacturer. …Henschel’s defence lawyer, James Foord, said … his client is a good person and that his submissions will provide more insight into Henschel’s character.”

Rheinmetall explains: “RWM Schweiz AG (former Oerlikon Contraves Pyrotec AG) specialises in the development and manufacture of medium calibre ammunition for land, air and naval applications, including anti-aircraft rounds.”

Rheinmetall and the genocide in Gaza

The American Friends Service Committee has previously posted about Rheinmetall on its Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide webpage: “Germany’s largest weapons manufacturer, which is providing Israel with 10,000 rounds of 120mm precision tank ammunition. Israel made the request in November, and Germany reportedly considered speeding up delivery of the ammunition by providing it from its own military’s existing stockpiles while ordering more from Rheinmetall.”

On June 20, 2024, United Nations experts highlighted: “Arms manufacturers supplying Israel – including BAE Systems, Boeing, Caterpillar, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Oshkosh, Rheinmetall AG, Rolls-Royce Power Systems, RTX, and ThyssenKrupp – should end transfers, even if they are executed under existing export licenses.”

In July 2024, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre further posted: “Facing Finance and impACT International criticised Rheinmetall, claiming that the arms manufacturer risks contributing to human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law through its weapon exports. Articles claim Rheinmetall avoids the German government’s arms export restrictions by exporting weapons through subsidiaries based in other countries.”

That same month, Niamh Ní Bhriain of the Transnational Institute and Mark Akkerman of Stop Wapenhandel, both of whom are based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, also noted: “British company BAE Systems, in conjunction with German company Rheinmetall, manufactures M109 self-propelled howitzers which have been used to shell densely populated areas in Gaza. Amnesty International has found evidence that these artillery weapons also deployed white phosphorus munitions, which can burn skin down to the bone and cause organ dysfunction; their use in civilian areas is restricted under international law.”

And in her June 2025 report, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese noted: “For Israeli companies such as Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, the ongoing genocide has been a profitable venture. …Foreign arms companies, especially producers of munitions and ordnance, also profit.”

The footnote for the foreign arms companies profiting from genocide links to this Rheinmetall webpage on Aircraft Bombs.

Holding executives accountable for international crimes

The report by Albanese also states: “While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and, now, genocide. The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives.”

In July 2025, The Guardian reported: “Albanese’s report points to precedents in holding corporations legally accountable for human rights abuses they enable, including the prosecution of leading German industrialists at the Nuremberg tribunal after the second world war, in what was known as the IG Farben trial.”

That article adds: “In her recommendations, Albanese calls for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel, and urges the international criminal court ‘and national judiciaries to investigate and prosecute corporate executives and/or corporate entities for their part in the commission of international crimes and laundering of the proceeds from those crimes.’”

Palestinian human rights defenders killed

The Dublin-based organization Front Line Defenders (the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders) has documented the killing of 31 Palestinian human rights defenders in 2023 and 2024.

The numbers are undoubtedly higher. Front Line Defenders notes: “In some regions and countries, including Palestine, the documentation of cases is highly challenging, if not virtually impossible.” They clearly state, however, that “those defending the right to health and the right to life as doctors, nurses, or ambulance workers, those exposing and documenting war crimes as journalists, and those providing humanitarian support as volunteers or employees of aid agencies were all specifically targeted by Israeli bombs or guns.”

Henschel to be sentenced for assault on November 24

According to the CBC News article: “He is expected to be sentenced following submissions on Nov. 24. It’s expected Crown prosecutors will read statements from the victim and other community members at that time. “

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Photo: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, Wet’suwet’en land defender Gaylene Morris of the Likhsamasyu Clan, Gitxsan hereditary leader Gwii Lok’im Gibuu, Jesse Stoeppler, and Dogwood Northern B.C. coordinator Kai Nagata.

Indigenous Climate Action has posted on Instagram: “Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting a summit on Bill C-5 on July 16–17 in Gatineau, QC — but key hereditary leaders, including the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs were not initially included.”

“After public pressure and pushback, Hereditary Chief Na’Moks was granted entry [on Wednesday July 16] — but it shouldn’t take this kind of effort just to be heard.”

Their post continues: “The government clearly hasn’t learned from past conflicts like Coastal GasLink. They’re still treating FPIC [free, prior and informed consent] like a formality instead of what it really is: a promise to respect Indigenous sovereignty. That’s why Gwii Lok’im Gibuu, Jesse Stoeppler, and Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks are heading to Gatineau — to speak up for their communities and lands!”

Yesterday (July 16), the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition and Gidimt’en Checkpoint further posted on Facebook: “Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition Co-executive Director, Gwii Lok’im Gibuu (Jesse Stoeppler), and Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks flew to Gatineau, QC yesterday to attend Prime Minister Carney’s Summit today on Bill C-5… a Summit they weren’t invited to!”

Chief Na’Moks told the Canadian Press: “I don’t need Canada’s permission or validation to be here to speak the truth and hold them accountable when they want to destroy this country without any input from hereditary (chiefs) or any Indigenous people. They are just picking and choosing who sits that room.”

Video clip.

After they were allowed into the summit on C-5, Chief Na’Moks released a statement that in part says: “Our exclusion from the initial planning and participation in this summit was a serious breach of the principles of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), and a continuation of colonial patterns that must end.”

Chief Na’Moks further highlighted: “My presence here is not symbolic—it is substantive. I am here to ensure that the voices of our people are heard, that our governance is respected, and that decisions are not made without us.”

As for the outcome of the summit, Chief Na’Moks is quoted by CBC News commenting: “We know they have a predetermined outcome.”

Reactions to Prime Minister Carney and the summit

After the prime minister addressed the summit, CBC News reported: “Carney’s remarks drew mixed reviews from First Nations leaders in attendance, with some expressing tempered optimism and others panning the entire process. ‘I’m leaving Ottawa with more concerns and more questions,’ said Gwii Lok’im Gibuu (Jesse Stoeppler) who is Gitxsan and deputy chief of Hagwilget Village Council in northern B.C., as he stood outside the meeting. ‘I didn’t have much faith in the process to begin with, and I’m leaving very concerned.’”

That article adds: “Chiefs were asked to submit questions in advance, and when they arrived there was a list of questions on the tables for them to comment on. Some felt they were being talked at, not listened to. …Na’Moks (John Ridsdale), a hereditary chief of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, [commented]: ‘You don’t give people a script that they must stick to because you’ve already made a decision.’”

Neskantaga, Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan leaders meet

Photo: Neskantaga Elder Alex Moonias and Chief Gary Quisess meet with Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan leaders, July 17, 2025.

The intervention at the C-5 summit also created the moment on Thursday morning in which Neskantaga, Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan leaders met.

As the Wet’suwet’en defended their yintah against the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline, the Gitxsan prepare to defend their laxyip from the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline, the Neskantaga seek to protect their lands and waters from Ring of Fire critical mineral mining projects.

Just as there is concern about the Carney government’s C-5 legislation, the province of Ontario’s Bill 5, the Protect Ontario By Unleashing Our Economy Act, allows the provincial government to designate “special economic zones” that would bypass environmental regulations and enable Ring of Fire mining.

APTN News has reported: “Ring of Fire Metals, owned by Australian mining giant Wyloo, and Juno Corp, a Canadian company formed in 2019, own the vast majority of claims in the area that is said to be replete with critical minerals.”

Earlier this year, CBC News also reported: “The Ring of Fire in northwestern Ontario has become a key figure in the battle to control critical minerals, which experts say is the heart of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada.”

Photo: Neskantaga Chief Gary Quisess and Gitxsan hereditary leader Gwii Lok’im Gibuu.

When PBI-Canada asked Elder Alex Moonias if he is concerned that the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will intervene on Neskantaga lands just as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) raided Wet’suwet’en lands, he poignantly replied: “That is their way.”

Photo: Elder Alex Moonias

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Further reading

Statement following the summit (July 17, 2025)

Instagram post.

Warnings of road, rail and mine blockades if Ring of Fire declared a “special economic zone” under Ontario’s Bill 5 legislation (May 27, 2025)

The struggle to live in peace; defenders of territories in Colombia and Canada meet to renew and strengthen relationships of solidarity (June 26, 2025).

Video still: Greenpeace Spain peace and disarmament campaigner Valentina Carvajal speaks in support of an arms embargo against Israel.

Europa Press reports: “More than 1,200 cultural professionals … presented a letter to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, on Monday [July 14], demanding that Spain ‘immediately’ decree a comprehensive embargo on arms and defence material to Israel by means of a Royal Decree Law.”

That article adds: “The event organized by the Campaign to End the Arms Trade with Israel, which brings together more than 600 civil society organizations…”

The letter states: “Spain cannot continue to export and import military equipment or allow the transit of weapons or fuel to a state that has been committing war crimes and crimes against humanity for decades.” It further highlights: “Maintaining arms deals with Israel is active complicity in genocide”.

The reading of this letter took place at the Teatro del Barrio in Madrid.

The Madrid-based Solidarity Network Against the Occupation in Palestine notes on Instagram: “Just minutes [after the letter was read at the theatre], the government announced that it plans to move forward in September with legislation—filed a year ago—that would establish an arms embargo on Israel This is an important step, the result of months of grassroots organising and relentless pressure.”

LaSexta further explains: “The government wants to end the arms trade with Israel, which has been killing Palestinian civilians for 20 months under the pretext of pursuing Hamas terrorist targets. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Second Vice President Yolanda Díaz agreed on Monday to push forward with the bill that will incorporate the concept of embargo into Spanish law and thus enable its effective application in the case of Israel.”

And Publimetro reports: “The government explains that this initiative will allow the concept of embargo to be incorporated into Spanish legislation, thereby consolidating the embargo on the Israeli military industry and extending it to all defense-related materials and technical assistance provided by arms companies in that country.”

But RESCOP highlights: “Announcements don’t stop a genocide. Action does. The urgency couldn’t be clearer: Israel is killing an average of 100 Palestinians every day. If the political will is there, why wait another two months? Tomorrow [July 15], like every Tuesday, the Council of Ministers meets. That’s where the embargo can—and must—be enacted immediately through a Royal Decree Law.”

Palestinian human rights defenders killed

The Dublin-based organization Front Line Defenders (the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders) has documented the killing of 31 Palestinian human rights defenders in 2023 and 2024.

The numbers are undoubtedly higher. Front Line Defenders notes: “In some regions and countries, including Palestine, the documentation of cases is highly challenging, if not virtually impossible.” They clearly state, however, that “those defending the right to health and the right to life as doctors, nurses, or ambulance workers, those exposing and documenting war crimes as journalists, and those providing humanitarian support as volunteers or employees of aid agencies were all specifically targeted by Israeli bombs or guns.”

The calls for an arms embargo continue in Canada

Global Affairs Canada (GAC) has stated: “Since January 8th, 2024, the Government of Canada has not approved new arms export permits to Israel, and this remains the Government’s approach.”

Montreal-based journalist Lital Khaikin has noted in Canadian Dimension: “The stated commitment has not held up in practice. Canadian peace research institute Project Ploughshares reported that a Canadian factory was the sole source provider of an explosive fuel for US-made 155mm calibre artillery shells. Last September, Québec-based General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems-Canada (GD-OTS-Canada) was contracted to produce approximately $78.8 million worth of M31A2 triple base propellant for the United States Department of Defense, destined for Ukraine and Israel.”

Notably, The Maple also reports: “Since [January 2024] GAC [has] changed its messaging in response to other media requests from The Maple to specify that the pause on new export permits applies to goods that ‘could be used in the current conflict in Gaza’.”

The Maple adds: “Dozens of existing military export permits authorized before Jan. 8, 2024, continued to be utilized last year, with $18.9 million worth of Canadian military goods shipped directly to Israel in 2024. That figure does not include largely unaccounted for exports — including components found in the F-35 fighter jet [including components manufactured by Gastops in Ottawa] — that are shipped to the United States and could end up being transferred by the U.S. government to Israel.”

On July 4, 2025, The Maple further highlighted: “Data from Global Affairs Canada (GAC) shows that in February [2025] the Liberal government authorized two new military export permits to Israel worth a combined total of $37.2 million. …The newly authorized goods fall under an export category that includes ‘bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, other explosive devices and charges and related equipment and accessories,’ and another category that concerns military ‘technology’.”

Khaikin adds: “GAC redacted other details about the permits, including the names of the companies that obtained them, as well as information about the exact nature of the goods and how they are intended to be used — and by whom — in Israel.”

Research by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Action Center for Corporate Accountability has noted that the transnational corporations arming the Israeli military include BAE Systems (artillery cannons and electronic missile launching systems), Boeing (attack helicopters and bombs), Colt (assault rifles), Elbit (drones, bombs and artillery shells), General Dynamics (F-16 fighter jets, bomb casings and artillery shells), Google (cloud services and AI technologies), Lockheed Martin (F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, Hellfire missiles), Rheinmetall (tank ammunition), and RTX/Raytheon (air-to-surface missiles). 

Peace Brigades International

Peace Brigades International called for a ceasefire in November 2023 and in March 2024 asked the international community to suspend the supply of arms to Israel. In May 2024, PBI-Canada joined the Canadian civil society call for an arms embargo on Israel.

We continue to follow this.

On May 26, PBI-Nicaragua posted:

“Last Friday [May 23], Nicaraguan human rights defenders in exile in San Jose organized an Emergency Vigil to demand the immediate release of people arbitrarily detained and in a condition of enforced disappearance.

The vigil was convened in an emergent way to cover the complaint that the feminist defender Sadie Tamara Rivas made public that day about the arrest and disappearance of her father, Anibal Rivas Reed. Sadie’s father was taken into custody on Saturday, May 17, at his bedroom home in Matagalpa and so far no word on his whereabouts. The defender and her family demand that they show him, give faith in life and release him immediately.

PBI accompanied the Vigil, expressing solidarity towards this family that has been victims of repression and political persecution on multiple occasions, who had to exile and apply for asylum to save their lives and today from exile they have to live with the uncertainty of a disappearance. We admire the bravery of the feminist Sadie Rivas who once again raises her voice to denounce and demand freedom, justice and reparation not only for her father but for all the people who like him are detained and missing, as is the journalist Fabiola Tercero [detained since July 12, 2024].”

On May 24, Infobae had reported: “In a statement, the organization Nicaragua Nunca Más [Never Again] warned that the family of the detainee ‘fears for his life and demands his prompt release, as well as the freedom of all political prisoners who are in Nicaraguan prisons.’ The collective also pointed out that Rivas Reed’s relatives denounced his forced disappearance, said they did not know his whereabouts and warned about his state of health. According to them, the detainee requires urgent medical attention and the use of specialized medicines.”

As of June 10, Articulo 66 reported that is still “in a condition of forced disappearance”.

Photo: Anibal Rivas as a Sandinista combatant during the revolutionary struggle.

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