Amnesty International has been informed by INREDH, a non-governmental human rights organization in the capital, Quito, that the eight environmentalists, Luis Muñoz, David Conrado, Juan Pablo Barragán, Jose Luis Proaño, Alberto Saltos, Stalin Saltos, Ivon Ramos and Julia Butterfly, have all been released. Julia Butterfly, a US citizen, has been deported to the USA. Amnesty International is investigating the terms of their release.
