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June 2, 2009

No More Deaths Activist on Trial in Arizona
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In Arizona, a human rights activist from the group No More Deaths went
on trial Monday for leaving plastic jugs of water in a National Wildlife
Refuge near the US-Mexico border. The activist, Walt Staton, says the
water jugs were left to prevent migrants from dying of dehydration. The
US government has accused Staton of “knowingly littering” in the Buenos
Aires Wildlife Refuge. The group No More Deaths has worked for years to
provide humanitarian aid to migrants. Over the past decade, nearly 2,000
men, women and children have died while trying to cross the border into
Arizona.



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