A court in China’s vast northern region of Inner Mongolia has sentenced to death a coal mine worker for killing a resident who had complained about pollution […] Earlier this month, a court in the same part of Inner Mongolia ordered the execution of a man for murdering an ethnic Mongolian herder who had also protested against coal mine pollution, a killing that set off days of rare protests.
This past month five environmentalists have been murdered in Brazil. Police are – apparently – clueless.
Sources: Yahoo! / Chinese man gets death in pollution protest case, AP / Chinese sentenced to die for Mongol herder’s death