EarthRights International (ERI) filed Campos-Alvarez v. Newmont Mining Corp. to obtain information about a violent police crackdown on protestors in Peru. The information will assist in civil actions and criminal prosecutions in Peru against those responsible for the violence. In the November 29, 2011 crackdown, police on contract with Newmont shot and beat community members who were objecting to Newmont’s proposed Conga mine project – including Elmer Campos Alvarez, who was shot in the back and remains paralyzed from the waist down.