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<div id="divRpF491830" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Amnesty International Canada [amnesty_individuals@ems02.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 08, 2010 2:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gcmichal@uwaterloo.ca</font></div>
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<b>Subject:</b> AtRisk: Carmen Mejía's life is in danger for opposing a mining company<br>
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<p><strong><span class="subtext_black"><font color="#333333" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">November 2010</font></span></strong></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Carmen has received death threats: Please respond.
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<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><em><strong>“You shouldn’t defend human rights, or you’ll be killed.”</strong></em></strong></font><br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Carmen Mejía received this warning several times in June.
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Then, a month later, someone shot her fellow grassroots activist, Deodora Hernandez, in the eye at close range. At the time, Deodora was speaking out about the impact of a mine on her community's water supply. She was seriously wounded, but she survived.
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<strong>The attempt on Deodora’s life underscores how seriously we must take the threats made against Carmen Mejía. </strong><br>
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Carmen is from a Mayan community in Guatemala. Her life is at risk because she is campaigning against impacts of mining on her community's human rights. She has spoken at public meetings about her concerns about the Marlin Mine, which is owned by a subsidiary
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The pattern of targeting and attempting to silence activists like Carmen Mejía must be investigated.
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<strong>Will you help protect Carmen? Join</strong></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong> Amnesty International in calling on Guatemalan authorities to take measures to stop the killing and death threats.</strong><br>
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</font></font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Together we can provide Carmen Mejía with protection, and allow her to be a strong voice against injustices committed against her community.</strong></font></p>
<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><a href="http://ems01.com/a/l.x?T=ikjeolpblejfmgfjgidjmnon&M=2" target="_blank">Sign the petition urging Guatemala to provide protection for Carmen</a></strong></font></font><br>
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<td width="300" height="20" valign="middle"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Activists</strong></font>
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<td align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Yuri Melini, a Guatemalan environmental activist, survives a shooting. But Amnesty International believes that he, his family, and colleagues are in grave danger.</em></font></td>
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<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There is a growing list of people who, like Carmen Mejía, are being threatened, jailed or attacked for speaking out against mining operations in Latin America.</font></p>
<p><strong><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://ems01.com/a/l.x?T=ikjeolpblejfmgfjgidjmnon&M=6" target="_blank">> Find out more and take action</a></font></strong></p>
<font color="#FFFFFF" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>in Latin America under attack<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#7c7c4a" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.amnesty.ca/atrisk/images/aungsansu_sm.gif" alt="ASSK" hspace="3" vspace="3" align="left" height="80" width="80"> Myanmar held an election yesterday- its first in 20 years. Aung San Suu
Kyi remains under house arrest, and was barred from running in this election. There are over 2,200 political prisoners in Myanmar today.<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.amnesty.ca/atrisk/images/Justine_Masika_Bihamba_small.jpg" alt="Justine" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" height="84" width="80"></font><font color="#7c7c4a" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Justine
Masika Bihamba - DRC</font></strong></font></font><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thousands have responded to Amnesty's call to protect Justine from harm, and she has expressed her thanks.
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<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="http://www.amnesty.ca/atrisk/images/huseincelil_sm.gif" alt="Celil" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" height="80" width="80"></font><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#7c7c4a" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Huseyin
Celil - China<br>
</font></strong></font></font><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Huseyin Celil remains in solitary confinement in China. He was recently visited by his mother, who said he is trying hard to keep up his spirits, even though his diet (one meal
per day) is inadequate to sustain him, and his health is not good.</font> <br>
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