For the first time a lawsuit against a Canadian mining company over alleged human rights abuses abroad will be heard in Canadian courts. Lawyers for the alleged victims of rape and murder at a Guatemalan mine will be able to sue HudBay Minerals for the alleged gang-rapes of eleven women, the killing of its community leader Adolfo Ich, and the shooting…of German Chub at HudBay’s former mining project in Guatemala. In August 2011, HudBay announced it had sold the…mining project…to the Solway Group, a private Russian company...A week ago, just before an Ontario court was set to determine the issue, HudBay abandoned its legal argument that the lawsuit should not be heard in Canada…Counsel for HudBay could not be reached for comment.