Ever Alexander Cedillo, Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, José Abelino Cedillo, Kelvin Alejandro Romero, Arnold Javier Alemán, Orbin Nahún Hernández, and Daniel Márquez are part of the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods (Comité Municipal de Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos (CMDBCP)). CMDBCP is an organization in Tocoa, in Colón, Honduras, defending land and environmental rights. This Committee is part of the resistance movement against the mining project Guapinol owned by company Inversiones Los Pinares. Guapinol community has claimed that the concession awarded to Los Pinares was illegal. They also claimed irregularities in the way the project obtained its environmental license. Since then, thirty-two members of the resistance movement have been criminalized, six have been killed, and many activists have been threatened and stigmatized. On 26th August 2019, all of them were taken into pre-trial detention accused of the crimes of unlawful association, damages, arson, and deprivation of liberty. Jeremías Martínez Díaz is being held in pre-trial detention in La Ceiba for the same case since December 2018. These accusations refer to a peaceful protest that opponents of the mining project engaged in during August and September of 2018. The legal process against the defenders of environmental and land rights began on 13th September 2018, when a Honduran court specializing in organized crime issued an arrest warrant against 18 of the members of the CMDBCP. The defenders have been in preventive prison since 2019.