Seven men have been sentenced for the murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, according to the AP.

Cáceres was an indigenous and environmental rights activist.

She was trying to stop the construction of the Agua Zarca dam project on the Gualcarque river believing it to be environmentally destructive and harmful to the Lenca people, an indigenous group in the area.

Cáceres and environmentalist Gustavo Castro were shot in her home in March 2016.

Castro survived by playing dead.

In November 2018, the court ruled that her murder was ordered by executives from the dam company, DESA. Her protests were causing delays and financial losses to the company.

The AP reports, the four hitman -- Elvin Rapalo, Edilson Duarte Meza, Óscar Torres, and Henry Javier Hernández were sentenced to 34 years for her murder and the attempted murder of Castro.

Sergio Ramón Rodríguez and former security chief and U.S.-trained army lieutenant, Douglas Geovanny Bustillo, were given 30.5 years for participating in the murder.

U.S.-trained special forces major, Mariano Díaz Chávez, who served with Bustillo, was also found guilty by omission. He was sentenced to 30 years.

These seven men were convicted in November 2018 but didn’t receive sentencing until more than a year later.

According to the Guardian, they have 20 days to appeal their sentences.

Executive President Roberto David Castillo Mejia, who led construction at the time, is accused of organizing the killing.

His case continues.

After Cáceres’s murder, Al Jazeera reports, construction on the dam stopped and international funders behind the dam withdrew from the project in 2013.

Cáceres won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work against the dam project.