Conviction for homicide of environmental defender David Diaz Valdez.
Alarming is the lack of effectiveness, enforcement, reaction and attention to prevent, protect and avoid aggressions and homicides against human rights defenders.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) strongly condemns the murder of environmental defender David Díaz Valdez, perpetrated on the afternoon of Friday, July 2, in Manzanillo, Colima, who was killed by gunshot wounds from unknown subjects moments before boarding his vehicle.
The CNDH learned that on June 21, the aggrieved environmentalist was released after being imprisoned for the crime of threats and dangerous attack, associated with the work of activism he was doing and the public denunciation regarding the negative impacts of the construction of a thermoelectric plant in the community of Campos, of that state.
The CNDH notes an alarming lack of effectiveness, validity, reaction and attention on the part of the bodies and authorities responsible for preventing, protecting and preventing attacks and killings against human rights defenders, a State obligation that has been repeatedly expressed by this National Agency and international human rights protection bodies.
That is why the CNDH requires the Attorney General’s Office of the state of Colima to carry out an efficient, objective, prompt and impartial investigation, in which the material and intellectual authors of the murder of the defender are identified and located, considering particularly in its lines of investigation the work of activism that he carried out, since only in this way will the cycle of impunity that has persisted in the homicides and attacks on people be brought down defenders.
