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Saweto Case: Hugo Soria Flores Arrested, Convicted of Murder of Four Ashaninkas Environmental Defenders

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Officials of the Ucayali Police Region captured Tuesday afternoon in the district of Manantay, province of Coronel Portillo, Hugo Soria Flores, sentenced for the murder of four Ashaninkas environmental defenders of the community of Alto Tamaya-Saweto in 2014 and who was on the list of the most wanted of the Rewards Program of the Ministry of the Interior. The captured was at large from the justice system and the Peruvian State offered a reward o…
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La Polic a Nacional captures the logging entrepreneur Hugo Soria Flores, sentenced to 28 years of imprisonment for the murder of the deres ash ninkas in 2014, in the Emblem tico Case Saweto.

The Peruvian National Police captured Hugo Soria Flores, a businessman sentenced for the crimes committed in 2014 against indigenous leaders Edwin Chota, Jorge Ríos, Francisco Pinedo and Leoncio Quintisima, in the iconic Saweto Case, on Tuesday. In August 2025, the Ucayali High Court of Justice sentenced Hugo Soria Flores for the crime of qualified homicide, in the form of mediate authorship. The businessman, who was at large, will have to serve…

Officials of the Ucayali Police Region captured Tuesday afternoon in the district of Manantay, province of Coronel Portillo, Hugo Soria Flores, sentenced for the murder of four Ashaninkas environmental defenders of the community of Alto Tamaya-Saweto in 2014 and who was on the list of the most wanted of the Rewards Program of the Ministry of the Interior. The captured was at large from the justice system and the Peruvian State offered a reward o…

·Lima, Peru
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RPP broke the news in Lima, Peru on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
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