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The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) express our concern for repeated abuse committed by the Honduran police against the population. In the last two weeks at least three people have reported assaults and assassination attempts by police officers. January 7, 2012, around 8:00 p.m., Gonzalo Cruz, 42 years old […]
January 9, 2012
The Committee for Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) wishes to express its total condemnation and deep concern regarding the police of the State of Honduras and their systematic practice of attacking its citizens. On 26 December Marco Aurelio Lorenzo, the Catholic parish priest for Macuelizo, Santa Bárbara, was travelling in a […]
March 31, 2011
by Juan Almendares – (Experimental torture laboratory against the people) – The river of truth flows through a bed of lies (R. Tagore) Since the military coup, Honduras has been converted into a laboratory for conspired war and media terror where military occupation forces conspire with Pentagon forces, Colombian military and police, hired security guards […]
March 29, 2011
To the national and international community, we express the following: 1. Miriam Miranda, President of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), was subjected to trauma, terror and illegal detention. 2. The Assassination of Professor ILSE RODRIGUEZ VELASQUEZ, one week earlier in the teachers’ protest in the capital [Tegucigalpa]. 3. The assault on human rights […]
March 29, 2011
Honduras: The Coup d’etat, its inheritors and the criminalization of social protest by Miriam Miranda Yesterday I was captured in a selective way by agents of the Ministry of security in the middle of a protest around the Garífuna community Triunfo de la Cruz. In the process of being arrested they shot several tear-gas bombs […]
March 5, 2011
Tegucigalpa, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) A total of 19 Honduran peasants were killed in Bajo Aguan from Jan 2010 until today and all the crimes remain unpunished, an international mission that visited the area reported. During the investigation that was conducted between Feb 25 and Mar 4, the group found numerous violations of human rights. […]
March 1, 2011
A peasant organizer is kidnapped and tortured, as his movement continues to occupy land claimed by corporations. by Jeremy Krit TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS—As he rode his motorcycle home through the Aguán Valley of Honduras on the night of January 8, 2011, Juan Chinchilla noticed he was being followed. As the car closed in, Chinchilla, a 25-year-old […]
February 3, 2011
More than 40 personnel from the “Cobras” battalion graduates in the capital city, revealed early on Wednesday during a protest of torture and abuse received within this elite group of police. From a place of confinement, soldiers who took refuge in anonymity, made desperate calls to human rights defenders to visit the headquarters of the […]
January 27, 2011
by Bill Quigley and Pam Spees In recent remarks on U.S.-Latin American relations made at the Brookings Institute, Arturo Valenzuela, a State Department official with responsibility for the region, commented that Honduras, two years removed from a coup that U.S. officials on the ground called illegal, had “made significant progress in strengthening democratic governance…[and] promoting […]
January 14, 2011
On January 8, 2010, Juan Ramón Chinchilla, representative of Youth in Resistance and MUCA was kidnapped, tortured, and managed to escape after 48 hours in captivity. An international campaign launched for his release might have saved his life. Here´s an exclusive interview with Chinchilla by a member of Honduras food and hotel industry union. By […]
December 20, 2010
FOR THE FULL REPORT SEE: After the Coup: Ongoing Violence, Intimidation, and Impunity in Honduras Honduran authorities should take concrete steps to end impunity for abuses committed after the country’s 2009 coup, and to curb ongoing attacks against journalists, human rights defenders, and political activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The […]
August 12, 2010
The peasant leader Maria Teresa Flores, who was missing since last August 7, was found dead with signs of having been tortured and then executed with shots from a firearm. Flores, mother of 14 children, was part of the Coordinating Council of Peasant Organizations of Honduras (COCOCH) and she used to head the Peasant Organization […]
July 3, 2010
The Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh), expresses its total repudiation and preoccupation by the illegal detention followed by torture that Edwin Spinal Róbelo was subject to at the hands of agents of the Preventive National Police. The 30th of June at 11:30 p.m. Edwin Róbelo Espinal was in his neighborhood, […]
July 2, 2010
Nine males between the ages of 12 and 17 were detained yesterday afternoon and held in jail overnight in a facility unsuitable for minors, without the notification of their parents/guardians or the Honduran Institute for Children and Families (INHFA). They were not charged with any criminal offense and were released at approximately 12:00 noon today […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
January 9, 2012
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