Mouhcine was the fishmonger whose awful death in the back of a garbage collection truck was caught in mobile phone footage that subsequently spread across social media to ignite large demonstrations in Morocco. The protests were the largest to take place there since the 2011 Arab Spring, as thousands of mainly young people demanded an end to what they identify as a culture of official abuses and corruption that further increases the challenge of living in the country with the region’s lowest per-capita income.

The recent murder of a Guatemalan human rights defender has cast a sombre shadow over social movements, signaling the increasingly hostile and too often fatally dangerous environment faced by human rights workers in the Central American country, international organizations warned Wednesday.

"Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima was a former student leader and human rights campaigner. As an Assistant to theExecutive Director of CALAS, he was in charge of managing sensitive information related to the high profile casesCALAS is litigating. The investigation into his murder should explore the possibility that he was killed in retaliationfor his legitimate human rights work."

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