Mark Townsend – The Cáceres Case – For a fair trial in Honduras

Empresa DESA espera “justicia verdadera” en el juicio de Berta Cáceres

by Mark Townsend on 29 November, 2018

La Empresa Desarrollos Energéticos (DESA), implicada en el asesinato de la ambientalista hondureña Berta Cáceres en marzo de 2016, espera que haya “justicia verdadera”, dijo hoy su abogado Robert Amsterdam…. [Continue Reading]

Robert Amsterdam Interview with EFE about the Cáceres Case

by Mark Townsend on 24 October, 201814 November, 2018

COPINH’s Objective is to Deprive Fair Trial Rights from Defendants, says DESA Lawyer Robert Amsterdam

by Mark Townsend on 24 October, 201814 November, 2018

Over this past weekend, the private accusers representing the family of the late Berta Cáceres, and Gustavo Castro, who have the same attorneys as the Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares… [Continue Reading]

Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA), a renewable energy company formed to build the hydroelectric facility Agua Zarca in Honduras, retained the international law firm of Amsterdam & Partners LLP to advise on issues pertaining to cases brought by the government of Honduras against two company executives in the 2016 death of the activist Berta Cáceres.

“This was a reprehensible murder that demands accountability,” said Robert Amsterdam, founding partner of Amsterdam & Partners LLP in a press release announcing the engagement. “However, what the Honduran judicial system needs at this important historical juncture is not the kind of rush to judgment we have seen from, the media and the international NGO community, pointing the finger of ‘intellectual authorship’ at DESA without considering any of the many possible alternatives. Rather, what is needed in these circumstances is a thorough, unbiased investigation and full compliance with international norms of criminal procedure, under which the accused is presumed innocent.”