Canadian mining company going on trial for alleged gang rapes in Guatemala
Source: Canadian TV News
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Wednesday, December 20, 2017 11:50AM EST
A lawyer poised to represent 11 Guatemalan women in a Canadian court says his clients are eager to “tell their story” in their lawsuit against HudBay Minerals Inc., the Toronto-based mining company named in an alleged 2007 gang rape in Guatemala.
The women allege they were gang-raped by police, military and security personnel in 2007, during a forced eviction from their village in relation to the Fenix mining project, which at the time was run by Skye Resources. Skye was taken over by HudBay in 2008.
HudBay has said it did not own Skye at the time of the alleged incident, but the case is nevertheless being allowed to go forward following a ruling by the Ontario Superior Court in 2013.
The women’s lawyer, Murray Klippenstein, says it’ll be the first time a Canadian mining company is taken to court on home soil for an alleged incident in another country.
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