[HNA] Honduras: Human Rights Update

[Sofia JarrinT]

Professor José Manuel Flores, FNRP member, assassinated
Professor Manuel, as his friends called him, was in the back of the facility overseeing his pupils when he found his murderers. They had crossed the perimeter fence and fired their guns at close range.
http://hondurashumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/professor-jose-manuel-flores-fnrp-member-assassinated/


Lawyers denounce before the IACHR that amnesty only applies to some

The amnesty was agreed before President Porfirio Lobo took office. However, during the IACHR 138 period hearing session, a group of eight lawyers representing various organizations in Honduras reported the competent authorities “are not applying amnesty.” “The amnesty is to be applied automatically by the Public Ministry and competent courts, but we have not been able to get that for people who opposed the coup,” charged attorney Roger Ordoñez, from the Center for Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation for Victims of Torture and their Families(CPTRT).
http://hondurashumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/lawyers-denounce-before-the-iachr-that-amnesty-only-applies-to-some/

FIAN: Urgent agricultural reform is needed

The inadequate agricultural policy launched after 1992 led to the enactment of the Modernization and Development of the Agricultural Sector Law, which is the cause of a deepening poverty in the rural sector and the violent conflicts that are increasingly taking lives.
http://hondurashumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/urgent-agricultural-reform-needed/


Directors of COHDEFOR in Bonito Oriental, assassinated

Jose Antonio Cardoz and Jose Concepcion Carias, both around 50-years-old, were killed at noon yesterday by unidentified individuals who opened fire with a shotgun as the campesinos were driving home after a day’s work in the Carbonal community, Bonito Oriental, Colon Department.
http://hondurashumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/directors-of-cohdefor-in-bonito-oriental-assassinated/


      
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