Mon, 8 February 2016 ppp
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
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| Enviromental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson talks during a 2014 Mother Nature press conference in Phnom Penh. Hong Menea |
In
a press release by the conservation NGO Mother Nature yesterday, the
environmental group dismissed last week’s charges brought against
founder Alex Gonzalez-Davidson and two other co-founders as “totally
without foundation” and said Gonzalez-Davidson will request that the
interior minister allow him back into the country to stand trial.
Gonzalez-Davidson,
who was deported in February of last year, was charged along with Sok
Chantra and Prom Dhammajat as an accomplice to the same alleged crime
that saw three of the group’s activists jailed in August 2015 for their
anti-sand dredging activities.
“We
believe that those who should be facing justice are the sand mining
companies and the government officials who are in cahoots with them,”
the statement reads.
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