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COPINH alerts the national and international community of new arbitrary actions of the national police in Honduras that put the physical integrity of 13 leaders of the Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan (Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguán), MUCA, who were detained tonight at 9:50pm. This acion was taken by police who maintain a police checkpoint in […]
May 6, 2011
Thursday afternoon, after the conclusion of a peaceful demonstration against “Honduras: Open For Business” by various organizations of the National Front of Popular Resistance, FNRP, police fired tear gas and captured about eight people, including three from the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations, COPINH, when they reached the central park of San Pedro Sula. […]
April 1, 2011
By Karen Spring (Rights Action, Tegucigalpa) Today, a National Strike was called in Honduras by the public school teachers and the National Front of Popular Resistance to protest the last two weeks of brutal and fierce repression, the eighteen political prisoners on trial and the attempt of the post-coup regime and international financial institutions to […]
March 25, 2011
At ten o’clock this morning in the Honduran capital, in front of the National Teacher’s Pension Institute (IMPREMAH) building, police and military agents launched tear gas and used excessive force to evict the demonstration in favour of public education, which had been taking place on the IMPREMAH property since early this morning. Similar evictions also […]
March 24, 2011
Repression continued again today in Honduras. The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras (COFADEH) has just called requesting urgent action on behalf of 26 people who are being detained. Six minors are detained at the police station Core 7. Twenty others are being detained at the Posta de Manchen. […]
March 23, 2011
Dozens of police and military have again raided the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), where thousands of students are receiving classes. Students had taken over the boulevard bordering UNAH when the repressive forces proceeded to remove them and they took refuge within the educational institution, where they were followed by agents. This is the […]
July 12, 2010
The full report can be found here. In pursuance of resolution AG / RES. 2531 (XL-O/10) REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON HIGH LEVEL THE SITUATION IN HONDURAS ESTABLISHMENT AND ACTIVITIES 1 .- On June 8, 2010, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted a Resolution on the Situation in Honduras [AG […]
March 25, 2010
During a court hearing with the Criminal Justice Section of Tegucigalpa, judge Melvin Bonilla issued precautionary measures against 10 of the 16 members of the Workers Union of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (Sitraunah), accused by the prosecution of sedition, coercion, and usurpation. Bonilla also issued house arrests against 5 people for being over […]
March 23, 2010
Washington, March 23 (EFE) .- Lawyers of various human rights organizations reported today before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that amnesty granted by the Legislature to heal the wounds of the coup perpetrated on 28 June 2009, is not being applied in Honduras. The National Congress of Honduras adopted a general amnesty on […]
February 25, 2010
According to the concept of amnesty, it is defined by the “legal forgiveness that exempts its authors from responsibility of their crimes.” In Honduras, most are still crying their dead and to ask for their forgiveness or forget such crimes as well as the authors of such crimes is just an excuse to harbor the […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
February 3, 2012
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