[HNA] SUMMARY OF THE VIOLATIONS TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONDURAS FROM JUNE 28TH 2009

[Michelle Fuentes]

*SUMMARY OF THE VIOLATIONS TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONDURAS FROM JUNE 28TH 2009*

Honduran Embassy in Washington

MURDERS:

1.Vicky Hernández Castillo (registered at birth as Sonny Emerson Hernández).
Transvestite and sex worker who was murdered during curfew between the 29th
and 30th of June, at a time when only police officers and military squadrons
were able to patrol the streets.

2.Gabriel Fino Noriega. Journalist murdered on July 3rd while leaving his
workplace in a local Radio Station (Radio Estelar) in the Department of
Atlántida. Died from seven gunshot wounds.

3.Alexis Fernando Amador. Dressed in a t-shirt supporting the “fourth ballot
box” (Cuarta Urna), he was found dead with signs of torture on July 3rd in
the sector of Agua Blanca in the capital.

4.Isis Obed Murillo Mencías. Shot and killed by the military on July 5th in
a demonstration in front of the airport of Tegucigalpa MDC.

5.Roger Iván Bados. A former union leader of the Unified Confederation of
Workers of Honduras (Confederacion Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras,
CUTH), member of the Democratic Unification Party (UD) and the Popular Block
(Bloque Popular), he was removed by force from his house in San Pedro Sula,
on July 11th and later killed by firearm.

6.Ramón Garcia. 40 years, leader of the Democratic Unification Party (UD)
who was forced to get off a public bus in Santa Barbara while returning from
a demonstration, and was shot and killed.

7.Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador. He was put under arrest by the authorities
of a military squad on July 24th in the city of El Paraiso, while trying to
reach the border between Honduras and Nicaragua to attend a march called by
the president-in-exile Manuel Zelaya. His body appeared on the 25th with
signs of torture and 42 stabs wounds.

8.Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano. Died August 1, shot in the head during a
police and military repression of a peaceful march on the outskirts of the
capital on July 30.

9.Martin Florencio Rivera Barrientos. Murdered on the early morning of
August 2 with firearms, while returning to his house after attending the
wake of Vallejo Soriano.

10.Pedro Hernández. A peasant murdered close to El Paraiso on August 3 when
soldiers opened fire on the vehicle in which he was traveling with other
people.

11.Juan Gabriel Figueroa Tome. A worker, had participated actively in
demonstrations against the coup. He was murdered, shot in the nape of the
neck in the city of San Pedro Sula on August 8th.

*THREATENED POLITICAL LEADERS:*

1.Silvia Ayala. Congressional representative of the department of Cortez.
Her house has been constantly monitored by security forces and anonymous and
unknown people have threatened the life of her children.
2.María Margarita Zelaya. Congressional representative and candidate for
vice presidency of the liberal party. Her house was leveled by soldiers
twice.
3.Rodrigo Tróchez. Congressional representative of the department of Santa
Barbara. His son was attacked with firearms on July 24th soon after the
representative denounced in Washington DC what happened in Honduras was to
coup d’ etat.
4.Carolina Echeverría. Sources of the district attorney’ s office notified
the congresswoman from the department of Gracias a Dios that they had
“received instructions from their superiors” to make up crimes and evidence
that would affect her husband.
5.Adan Funez. Mayor of Tocoa. His house was stormed by military forces on
June 30th. He has also received death threats periodically as well as
warnings that he will be prevented from running for reelection in the
November 29th elections.
6.Adelmo Rivera. Mayor of Sonaguera. The army tried to capture him on July
2nd, and the municipal building was militarized.
7.Clemente Cardona. Mayor of Bonito Oriental. His municipal building was
militarized as well. Pro-coup representatives have notified him that they
will not be transferring economic resources that by law correspond to his
municipality because of his anti-coup stance.
8.Amable of Jesus Hernández. Mayor of Colinas, Santa Barbara. His wife
received death threats via cell phone immediately after he participated in a
press conference in Washington DC denouncing the coup d’ etat.
9.Filimón Flores. Candidate for Congressional representative of the Liberal
Party in the department of Colon, has received death threats.
10.Eduardo Flores. Candidate for Congressional representative of the
Democratic Unification Party (UD) in the Department of Colon has received
death threats.
11.Carlos H. Reyes. Presidential Candidate, was attacked by police officers.
His arm was broken, requiring extensive surgery.
12. Marvin Ponce, a current a member of a congress was assaulted in a
pacific manifestation in Honduras.

*COMMUNITY AND POPULAR LEADERS WHO HAVE RECEIVED DEATH THREATS*

•Elsy Banegas, Mario López y Eduardo Flores, leaders of the Union of Workers
of the National Agrarian Institute (SITRAINA).
•Manuel Flores. Union of Workers of the National Electric Energy Company
(STENEE).
•Wilfredo Paz. Federation of Teachers Organizations of Honduras (FOMH) from
the Department of Colón
•Héctor Starling y Juan Cruz of the Teachers Union of Tocoa, Colón.
•Gladys Lanza, threatened by people with ties to torturer Billy Joya.
•Juan Barahona, who was also arrested for participating in street protests
against the coup.
•Erasto Calle, union leader.
•Walter Trochez, leader from the LGBT community in Honduras who was also
arrested, beaten and harassed on account of his sexual orientation after
participating in a march against the coup.

*THREATS AGAINST ENTIRE COMMUNITIES*

The Guadalupe Carney community of Colón, with more than 600 families making
up 45 cooperative peasant organizations, is in an ongoing state of siege,
continuously threatened and attacked by the army and paramilitary forces in
the northeast Department of Colón.

*ARBITRARY DETENTIONS*

1,275 people arrested between June 29 and July 21 for protesting against the
coup d’etat.
Arbitrary application of the curfew, converting entire regions of the
country into concentration camps, as occurred in the Department of El
Paraíso where some 5,000 people were trapped without food or water from July
24-26.

*JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BEING CARRIED OUT AGAINST ANTI-COUP PROTESTERS*

•Marcelino Martínez
•Carlos Josué Bueso
•Joel Armando Martínez
•Gerson Adolfo Fajardo
•Junio Antúnez
•Martha Ileana Hernández

*ATTACKS ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION*

Militarization and temporary closures of Radio Globo, Radio Progreso, Maya
Tv and Canal 36 during the first days of the coup. Machine-gunning of the
studio of Radio Tegucigalpa. Signals for these channels blocked, and
electricity cuts specifically targeting media outlets.
•Death threats and intimidation against journalists, including:
•Johny Lagos (El Libertador)
•Luis Galdames (host of the radio program “Going after the truth”/“Tras la
verdad”)
•Jesuit priest Ismael Moreno (Radio Progreso)
•Romell Gómez (Radio Progreso)
•Reflection and Communication Team/ERIC (Radio Progreso)
•Jorge Orlando Anderson (television program “La Cumbre” on Bonito Oriental)
•Nahúm Palacios (Televisora del Aguán, Canal 5)
•Wilfredo Paz (Centro de Noticias de Colón)

Temporary arrests of independent journalists for their opposition to the
coup, including:
•Romell Gómez (Radio Progreso)

Shutting down of the program “Voices against oblivion/forgetting” of the
Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras
(COFADEH) which had been transmitting uninterrupted for 20 years.

*XENOPHOBIC CAMPAIGN*

More than 100 Nicaraguan citizens arbitrarily detained for long periods of
time without charge, subjected to abusive treatment, denied the right to
contact their consular representatives and jailed with common criminals
under the argument that they represented an “external threat,” despite the
fact that the de facto government presented no evidence against them.

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-Michelle Fuentes

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does
not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."   Kahlil
Gibran
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