After surviving 19 months in a Honduran maximum security prison and a nearly four-year legal fight, “Elmvale’s Edwin Espinal” is finally free.
Espinal, a Honduran human rights activist arrested and jailed during anti-government protests in his native country in January 2018, is featured on two billboards near the town in Simcoe County, about 120 kilometres north of Toronto. The signs — one erected on Highway 90 in 2018, the other on Highway 92 in 2019 — call him “Elmvale’s Edwin Espinal” and implore drivers to “free political prisoners” and “stand up for human rights.”
Though Espinal himself has never been to Canada, his wife, Karen Spring, grew up
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