The Environmenal Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) is asking for the public's help…for freeing Eduardo Arturo Mosqueda…who has been imprisoned without bail in Mexico…on July 22 while working to defend the Nahua people in Jalisco State….Eduardo works for ELAW's partner organization, Instituto de Derecho Ambiental (IDEA), a grassroots organization…Eduardo's arrest is tied to IDEA's work on a lengthy land dispute that the Nahua people…have with an iron mining company (Consorcio Minero Benito Juárez Peña Colorada S.A.) [property of Ternium and ArcelorMittal]…In 2013, the community filed a constitutional petition…asking the court to recognize the community's rights over the land. A…judge…issued an injunction…suspending the mining company's use of the lands…

Join the petition here.