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On the morning of 18 March 2015, human rights defender Mr Abdul Kareem Al-Khaiwani was shot dead near his home in Hael Street of the capital Sana'a by two unidentified armed men on a motorbike.

On 7 March 2016, human rights defender Mr William Castillo Chima was shot dead in the public establishment of “Los Galvanes”,  in Villa Echeverry, in the municipality of El Bagre, Antioquia. The assassination occurred one day after his colleague and fellow human rights defender Ms Maria Dania Arrieta Perez received several death threats in text messages sent to her mobile phone.  

On 14 June 2016, Guarani-Kaiowá leader and human rights defender Clodieldo de Souza was shot dead during a raid conducted by paramilitary forces in the indigenous settlement Tey Jussu, in the region of Caarapó (Mato Grosso do Sul, MS). The attackers are presumably acting on orders from local landowners who perceive indigenous communities as obstacles to large scale farming in MS, despite these communities' constitutional right to have their territories demarcated.