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Lawsuit (SLAPP)

21 Nov 2023

Damaris Sánchez Samudio - Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral Comunitario y Conservación de los Ecosistemas en Panamá (FUNDICCEP)

Status: ONGOING

Date lawsuit was filed
21 Nov 2023
Date accuracy
All Correct
Damaris Sánchez Samudio
Criminal
Female
Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral Comunitario y Conservación de los Ecosistemas en Panamá (FUNDICCEP)
Environmental concerns group
Lawsuits: SLAPPs
Legal claims: Illicit association to commit crime, Damages
Lawsuit Brought By: Other
Target: Individual
Location of Filing: Panama
Location of Incident: Panama

Sources

On 21 November 2023, 21 people demonstrating against the approval of a mining contract between the Panamanian State and a mining company were criminally denounced by the Cámara de Turismo, Comercio e Industrias de Tierras Altas de Panamá. They were accused of criminal association, damages and terrorism. Among them, Damaris Sánchez Samudio, Coordinator of the Fundación para el Desarrollo Integral Comunitario y Conservación de los Ecosistemas en Panamá (FUNDICCEP). The complaint occurred in the context of massive demonstrations against the approval of a contract that allowed the copper exploration concession at the largest open-pit copper mine in Central America operated by the company Sociedad Minera Panamá, S.A, a subsidiary of the Canadian First Quantum Minerals. A first contract between Sociedad Minera Panamá, S.A. and the Panamanian State was declared unconstitutional in 2017. We invited the Cámara de Turismo, Comercio e Industrias de Tierras Altas to respond; it did not.