Police brutality rampant in Honduras, amnesty report says
(CNN) -- In the seven weeks since the military-backed bloodless coup in Honduras, several hundred people protesting against the de facto government have been arbitrarily arrested and beaten by government forces, a new Amnesty International report says.
The marks of a police truncheon are shown on a student's back after a protest, Amnesty International says.
The report, released Wednesday, said the beatings were meant to punish those who opposed the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya in June.
It includes testimony from, and photographs of, several people who were baton-whipped and detained by police officers who sometimes wore no visible identification and hid their faces behind bandanas as they broke up demonstrations.
"They beat us if we raised our heads; they beat us when they were getting us into the police cars," said a student whom Amnesty Internationalinterviewed in late July at the police station where he was being detained.
"They said, 'Cry and we'll stop.'"
Multiple requests to the government for comment went unanswered. The government has said in the past that the demonstrators were arrested for engaging in violence and provoking authorities.
The Honduran political crisis stems from Zelaya's defiant push to hold a referendum that could have led to extending term limits by changing the constitution. The country's congress had outlawed the vote and the supreme court had ruled it illegal.
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He was ousted in a coup on June 28. The congress named Roberto Micheletti provisional president shortly after the military detained Zelaya and sent him into exile.
Micheletti and his supporters deny that a coup took place, calling the action a constitutional transfer of power.
The coup resulted in unrest throughout the country, with frequent clashes between police and military on one side and civilian protesters on the other. At least two people were shot to death, Amnesty said.
Among several examples, the Amnesty report quotes F.M., a 52-year-old teacher, who said he was demonstrating peacefully when police descended on the rally.
"They grabbed me and shouted, 'Why do you (all) support Zelaya's government?' They beat me. I have not been informed as to why I am detained."
He showed deep-red imprints on his back, which he said were from a beating with a baton.
"Detention and ill treatment of protesters are being employed as a form of punishment for those openly opposing the de facto government and also as a deterrent for those contemplating taking to the streets to peacefully show their discontent with the political turmoil the country is experiencing," said Esther Major, Amnesty's Central America researcher
The marks of a police truncheon are shown on a student's back after a protest, Amnesty International says.
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Police rape young Choloma
This afternoon, when I hear the complaint that a neighbor of Choloma has made on the premises of Radio Progreso, I was cold ... a feeling of anger and helplessness invaded me.
The couple, accompanied by her mother and husband had reported the rape of which he has been, on Friday, August 14, during the horrible hours of repression that was lived in Choloma, during the siege by the resistance.
She relates that he was captured along with several male partners, but it is not dropped from the patrol and taken to an unknown destination, believed to have passed through Ticamaya, Choloma behind bushes and down that he was not able to identify and 4 that the gorillas of the national police have outraged sexually.
Tells the girl who was taken handcuffed, face down on the floor of the police patrol, while a police iban llebava putting his boot on his back and that prevented him from seeing the direction they took and raped her one by one, in total were 4, expected to hear a name "Luis Chepe," and see the badge of two: Ortiz and Lopez and the fourth gorilla was unable to know his name.
While I was savagely abused, insulted him, as if it was just what he did, after 4, the tolete, was inserted in her vagina.
After the left to themselves and walked the jungle, disoriented and without direction until he reached the road. Is alive, thanks to a good woman who went and gave him help.
The girl reported that, between grief and rage, I have to me, shocked. This is horrendous and the worst of all, it is not the first time that happens, as in days gone by, a lady complained that when apprehended in one of the shots, he had introduced the tolete in her vagina.
No doubt that always happens. The form of torture that women are being in this repression has a different connotation to that of the male, because while they were beating the tolete or kicked in the back, arms and head, to The women were beaten buttocks and vulva with tolete, while being humiliated and insulted.
The gorillas we are saying to women that our body does not belong to us and therefore, they can rape, outrages, to minimize the lowest expression. How not to feel powerless against such infamy? ¿Óomo not dismayed with this situation? But after all, I am proud and happy that this woman, dared to complain, could mourn a little, could say how he felt, he could count on the support of her mother and her husband, she arrived at the location indicated: Radio Progreso, and valuable space that Hondurans have to make our complaints could be heard and not be judged, ¡¡¡reason we stopped many times when making a complaint of this kind!
Therefore we must condemn all crimes committed by the gorillas and their gorileti and shout from the rooftops that the world knows, this government coup and evil, must have their hours are no streets, denunciémoslos. We must continue the resistance.
Only the people Save the people
Or coups d'etat Neither ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ blows against women !!!!!!!!
Honduras claim 24 political prisoners, victims of the de facto government
The de facto Government has shown its brutality and intolerance to prosecute 24 Hondurans and Honduran for exercising their constitutional right to peaceful protest.
In Honduras there is no longer the rule of law. The most striking is the statement issued today in the middle of the night by Honduran court stated that criminal proceedings against Honduras and Hondurans 24 to put into practice his constitutional right to peaceful protest.
The companions arrested in the afternoon of Wednesday August 12 have been charged with sedition, robbery and illegal marches. Until now it has not been filed or a single test and not even the first hearing was held in court as required by law, but these citizens were sentenced from cells of the police station where they were 7 CORE taken hostage after having stayed for more than 12 hours in a battalion in Tegucigalpa.
The judges have flagrantly violated the law that they claim to defend. These enemies of the people are part of the structure of the Supreme Court who joined the illegal government headed by Roberto Micheletti which also has the shameful support of the National Congress, the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces and Police National.
Honduras in the village is now seen as the enemy for not wanting to stifle their voices and not subject to the brutality of the illegal authorities that want to fit in power without having achieved after 47 days since the coup d'état carried out June 28 in the country.
Political prisoners The situation is extremely serious for the 24 persons indicted, 12 of which will be transferred to prison Tamara located several kilometers north of the Honduran capital, pending a second hearing with the worst conditions that the newly finished.
Then the names of political prisoners and their place of origin:
Avilio Antonio Izaguirre - San Lucas, El Paraíso Department Santos Ricardo Perez - Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán Department Daniel Cárcamo Angel - Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán Department Florentino Izaguirre - San Lucas, El Paraíso Department Joseline Ávila - Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán Department Oscar Manuel Murillo - Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán Department Lizandro Gómez Martínez - La Paz, La Paz Department Magdaleno Lazo - Santa Elena, La Paz Department Rosario Vasquez - Santa Elena, La Paz Department Wilmer Orlando Lopez - Santa Elena, La Paz Department Santos Herrera Milca Céspedes (Colombian-born).
These colleagues will be detained until Monday August 17 for the next hearing. It is important to emphasize that they are imprisoned without trial in a common prison, where their lives are in much danger.
Although to 12 other colleagues who also has process, they allow alternatives such as "house arrest", the judges ruled prison or detention of these colleagues because they had no "roots" that the Honduran laws leads to did not have a contract (the majority are peasants), or properties in their names or credit cards to prove that they are "attached to the productive life of the country."
The class bias of Honduran law is unmistakable as you do not need to read between the lines to understand that the worst crime they committed these brave Hondurans for aristocratic judges, was very poor.
Declared alternatives for companions:
Mabel Carolina Lopez Emerson Barahona Mario Rodrigo Ardón Nelson Gustavo Rivera Said Darwin Hernandez Darwin Isaac Amaya Oslyn Daniel George Allan Samuel Cruz Alba Leticia Ochoa José Natividad Perez Gerardo Bardales
All remain in process as well as political prisoners, pending the second hearing, the companion Justo Pastor Mondragón was ruled house arrest because he is a senior citizen.
Honduras recorded history at this moment one of its most disastrous chapters, there is no justice in our land and the most voracious have launched a desperate to maintain power that has never belonged to them and is now eagerly sought by large majorities demanding to take charge to create a homeland for all and not for the few.
Misrepresent the law and attacked the unarmed and humble. Believe that the impunity that today supports will be eternal and make the deaf to international condemnation that has so far supported the Honduran people. Honduras at the moment needs stronger support for our most precious resource in this clear threat, the government writes the de facto weapons against all those who have made the Justice, Freedom and Respect Life creed daily.
Venceremos!
¡Foolishness!
OPLN
SUMMARY OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN HONDURAS FROM 28 / 6
MURDERS: 1.Vicky Hernández Castillo (registered at birth as Sonny Emerson Hernandez). Transvestite and sex worker was killed during curfew between day 29 and June 30, when only police and military could move about the streets. Fine 2.Gabriel Noriega. Journalist killed seven bullet wounds on July 3 when he left his place of work in the department of Radio Estelar Atlantis. Fernado 3.Alexis Amador. He wore a shirt of the "fourth ballot box" and found murdered with signs of torture on July 3 in the area of Agua Blanca in Tegucigalpa. Obed Mencías 4.Isis Murillo. Shot dead by the army on July 5 in a demonstration outside the airport in Tegucigalpa. Bados 5.Roger Ivan, a former union leader of the Single Confederation of Workers of Honduras (CUTH), a member of the Democratic Unification (UD) and the Popular Bloc was taken by force from his home in San Pedro Sula on July 11 and shot dead. 6.Ramón Garcia, 40 years, leader of the Democratic Unification (UD), was forced to get off a vehicle of public transportation in Santa Barbara when he was returning from a demonstration and riddled with bullets on July 12. Magdiel 7.Pedro Salvador Muñoz. Detained by authorities at a military checkpoint on July 24 in the town of Paradise while trying to reach the border with Nicaragua to attend a march called by the president in exile Manuel Zelaya. His body was found on June 25 with signs of torture and 42 stab wounds on his body. Abraham Vallejo 8.Roger Soriano. He died on August 1 as a result of a gunshot to the head during the repressive military and police to a peaceful march on the outskirts of the capital on July 30. 9.Martín Florencio Rivera Barrientos was killed at dawn on August 2 with knives, when returning home after attending the wake of Soriano Vallejo. 10.Pedro Hernandez. A farmer killed by troops at a roadblock near El Paraíso August 3 when the soldiers opened fire on the vehicle in which they are driving with other people. Gabriel Figueroa 11.Juan Tomé. Worker, had actively participated in the demonstrations of repudiation of the coup. He was killed by a gunshot to the neck in the city of San Pedro Sula on August 8.
POLITICAL LEADERS threats:
• Silvia Ayala. Member of the department of Cortés. His house has been subjected to constant surveillance by the security forces, while strangers have threatened the lives of their children. • Mary Margarita Zelaya. Congresswoman and candidate for vice president by the ruling. His house was raided by the military twice. • Rodrigo Trochez. Deputy for the department of Santa Barbara. Her son was attacked with bullets on July 24 after the deputy reported in Washington that what happened in Honduras was a coup. • Carolina Echeverría. Sources in the prosecutor warned the Congress by the department of Gracias a Dios that had "received instructions from his superiors to" invent crimes to her husband. • Adam Funez Mayor Tocoa. His house was raided by the army on June 30 and regularly receives death threats and warnings are also prevented from participating in the elections of November 29 in seeking re-election. Adelmo • Rivera, mayor of Sonaguera. The army tried to capture him on July 2 and municipal facilities were militarized. • Clemente Cardona Mayor Bonito Oriental. His mayoralty was related to the military coup and MPs have warned him that he was not transferred resources that by law you are condemned by the municipality to the coup. • Kind of Jesus Hernandez, mayor of Santa Barbara hills. His wife received death threats to his cell phone then you are participating in a press conference in Washington to denounce the coup. • Filimonos Flores, candidate for MP for the ruling Liberal Party in the department of Colón has received death threats. • Eduardo Flores, candidate for MP for the Democratic Unification Party (UD) in the Department of Colón has been threatened with death. • Carlos H. Reyes, a presidential candidate, was assaulted by police. His arm was fractured and had to undergo surgical intervention. • Marvin Ponce, Member of Congress, was attacked for his participation in a peaceful demonstration.
Popular leaders death threats
• Elsy Banegas, Mario Lopez and Eduardo Flores, leaders of the Union of Workers of the National Agrarian Institute (SITRAINA). • Manuel Flores. Union of National Electric Power Company (STENEE). • Wilfredo Paz. Federation of Organizations of Honduras magisterial (FOMH) Department of Colon • Juan Cruz and Hector Starling's Teachers Union Tocoa, Columbus. • Gladys Lanza, threatened by people linked to the repressor Billy Joya. • Juan Barahona, who was also arrested for participating in street demonstrations in protest at the coup. • Erasto Street, union leader. • Trochez Walter, leader of the gay-lesbian-bisexual transvestite from Honduras was arrested, beaten and denigrated for their sexual orientation after participating in a march against the coup. THREATS AGAINST COMPLETE COMMUNITIES • The Community Guadalupe Carney of Columbus, where over 600 families in 45 self-help organizations agglutinated peasant, lives in a situation of threat and harassment by the army and paramilitary forces in the northeastern department of Colon.
ARBITRARY ARRESTS
• 1.275 people arrested between June 29 on July 21 for protesting against the coup d'état • Implementation of the curfew arbitrarily turning entire areas of the country in concentration camps as happened in the department of El Paraiso, where about 5,000 people were trapped without food or water from 24 to July 26.
Judicial proceedings demonstrators REBELLION AGAINST THE COUP • Marcelino Martinez • Joshua Carlos Bueso • Joel Armando Martinez • Gerson Adolfo Fajardo • June Antúnez • Martha Ileana Hernandez
AGAINST FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 1) Militarization and temporary closure of Radio Globo Radio Progreso Maya TV Channel 36 and the first days of the coup. Machine guns in the cockpit radio transmission Tegucigalpa. Locks signals to these channels and outages unexpected light. 2) death threats and intimidation against journalists: Johny • Lakes (The Liberator) • Luis Galdames (conductor of the radio program "On Truth") • Jesuit Father Ismael Moreno (Radio Progreso) • Romell Gomez (Radio Progreso) • Team Reflection and Communication (Radio Progreso) • Jorge Orlando Anderson (TVs "The Summit" Bonito Oriental) • Nahum Palacios (Televisora of Aguán, Channel 5) • Wilfredo Paz (News Center Columbus) 3) temporary arrest of journalists for their opposition to the coup: • Romell Gomez (Radio Progreso) 4) Closing of the "Voices Against Forgetting" Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) that had been airing non-stop for 20 years.
Xenophobic campaign
More than 100 Nicaraguan citizens arbitrarily detained for several hours without being charged, being subject to abuse, they were denied the right to contact their consular authorities and were locked up with common criminals on the grounds they represent an "external threat" although the de facto government has offered no evidence against him.
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Evictions, beaten and detained in Tegucigalpa
Honduras, August 12, 4:15 de la tarde
Protest demonstrations against the coup were suppressed in Tegucigalpa, there are several hit and more than twenty prisoners, including journalists who have seized the equipment, while military police and military have buildings which house the protesters and the track area.
Low of the National Congress has become a prison where the detainees one hours after capture were still beaten.
Among the detained journalists, including a reporter for Life Magazine and Education www.honduraslaboral.org, George Oslin, who took his camera. Also beat the journalist Cesar Silva, a former state employee of Channel 8 in the government of Manuel Zelaya.
In the operation has been compared to the official Palma Flores, who for a time ran the Cobras special battalion of police officers. The officer personally snatched the camera to a reporter.
Meanwhile, the police joined the National Pedagogical University, UPN, fired bursts of bullets alive, engaged the present and the unknown number of detainees. In the outskirts, soldiers and police tracked the streets and arrest those suspected of participating in the protests.
Popular leaders complained that other military groups to move repremir at the Teachers College of Education and the Media COPEMH Union of Beverage Industry and Allied Workers, STIBYS, which harbored protesters outside Tegucigalpa.
Last night was declared a curfew in Tegucigalpa from 10 at night until five o'clock.
A human rights have prevented them from underneath the Congress and then get to where the detainees who at about 3:30 in the afternoon took on a military truck, they were told that by the fourth police station, but at 4 and 10 pm to 26 people were in the truck in front of the Cobras in the special command Cologne October 21 of the Capital.
Of the twenty-sixth most detainees are young Tegucigalpa, three gentlemen, two women and a Colombian citizen who was captured when eaten in a restaurant near where he was released by police.
Deputy to the National Congress Party of Democratic Unification, Marvin Ponce, was attacked by about 45 police officers and given the severity of the beatings he was in Havana's Hospital School.
HRN Radio Broadcasters and America, with nearly eighty repeaters in the country, excited the audience to attend the stadium in San Pedro Sula to match the selection of Honduras to the front of Costa Rica in the playoffs for the World Cup South Africa 2010. Morning news commentators almost called the police to repress the demonstrations.
In San Pedro Sula, 240 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, thousands of demonstrators protesting in the streets even when they have been threatened by police. After two hours of blockade of the toll booth east of San Pedro Sula, at 4:20 in the evening the event is closely followed in the path to the Technological Institute of Business Administration, INTA, a police contingent , an armored vehicle and a bus without passengers can use that is supposed to transfer detainees.
The price of the tickets to enter the party of the selection has gone down by 50 per cent and Figueroa Commissioner Third sampedrana Police announced the presence of two thousand policemen and soldiers to guard the activity because they fear protests. Yesterday August 11 arrived in the city over 30 thousand people after a walk of five hundred kilometers began on August in several of the northwest.
For the police-military movement is feared repressive acts in San Pedro Sula.
Leaders of the National Resistance Front has called for renewed protests for tomorrow August 13.
Bartolo Fuentes Communication Community COMMON www.honduraslaboral.org
ALBOR OF RESISTANCE
His desire is to light. His blood lives. Peaceful, healthy, fair, active martyrs of the resistance against the coup. Brothers in the resurrection: we illuminate.
Gabriel Noriega Fino San Juan Pueblo Journalist Thursday, 02 July 2009 ¡Presente! The wind guide parchments no compromise with evil unquenchable voice of the ocean of your justice.
Isis Obed Murillo Mencías Student Tegucigalpa Sunday, 05 July 2009 ¡Presente! There will always be distracted birds that lay bare the morning, playing songs on flights and curtains of light and everything will turn young people into your homeland.
Roger Iván González bados Unionist. San Pedro Sula Saturday, July 11 2009 ¡Presente! The thrushes you raise banners and terracotta painted with colorful avenues people rebel in disobedience to the good path.
Ramón García Member of the Central Nacional de Trabajadores del Campo Dead, Macuelizo, Santa Barbara, Sunday, July 12, 2009 ¡Presente! The orioles nest in their fields and from their ears, the bloom strength of your name and your memory gives fruitful life in abundance.
Pedro Munoz Magdiel Salvador Young mason, master of work. Member of the Youth Christian Association Executed. Tortured, 42 stab wounds, one in the aortic artery. Alauca, El Paraíso, Saturday, July 25, 2009 ¡Presente! Desert lilies bloom and summer scents voices will say in a harsh and sweet justice to find bread in his hands, not hatred.
Roger Abraham Vallejo Soriano Professor of Educational Media. Injured, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Died Saturday, August 01, 209 ¡Presente! In the children in recreation yards improvising and the horns playing joys flags because disobedience of the teacher is learning to be free, books, testimonials.
Florencio Martin Barrientos Rivera Elementary Teacher stabbed to death Tegucigalpa Sunday, August 02, 2009 ¡Presente! No one morning to tie a lie, nobody will say fake nights at the stars, no one deceive the coin justice, no one can say, is nothing: and resurrected.
Pedro Pablo Hernandez Agricultor Road Trojer machine-gunned 04 August 2009 ¡Presente! They want to tie the fronds to the light, put your hands up in decency. They want to obey their crime and say they're blind. Died: when you go to the noble people.
Candelario Reyes García Day forty hit.
Repression at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (UNAH)
Police pursued the student leaders, who seek to protect the university premises. Agents seize cameras and student journalists who were recording what happened.
A journalism student, who worked for Radio Globo, said it suspended the transmission, because there is no security there. Some students have also tried to assault Olbin Rodriguez of the University Committee.
The students' reaction would have to do with the vague position of the university authorities against the coup that had attempted to promote a sense of peace and reconciliation dialogue, but without an explicit condemnation of the coup of State.
Asked about whether to withdraw Michelletti, amid all the confusion, the rector, Julieta Castellanos, replied that she had no answer to that and was "talking about other things" that would require the Police.
Like yesterday, a university student resistance was cornered and beaten by four armed bodyguards guns, members of the security of the presidential candidate of the Partido Liberal Elvin Santos.
The fact is seen by students with suspicion and anger because apparently, Elvin Santos, was already out when four of its guadaespaldas be returned to assaulting a student, and leaving the candidate to address their next vehicle.
What has been interpreted as a violent act ordered by the candidate Santos, who was never in danger of being attacked. Students shouted ¡le coup! Go! and made with a water hose in a small boat, which he soaked shirt. Violent on that fact, there was no reaction, at least not a public condemnation of the University.
The only sounds you hear at the moment is from falling objects and throw, people shouting, car and shoot move water to students.
It has unleashed a persecution of the police against students. Last night one of the student leaders said they were making it difficult to participate in the streets, the marches of the resistance against the coup.
He added that students were having difficulties because they did not want to miss their classes because the University has not suspended and that they wanted to demonstrate, and as not to miss their classes, had decided to carry out different activities and marches within the University to repudiate the coup of State.
Study learn, Chepo for (police) will never be!
¡Murderers, murderers! Students yell at the policemen.
¡Calma, calma! Beware, beware, it's Rector!
Shout out to protect students and prevent other students to attack Dean.
On August 5, 2009 12:50, Diana Canales
Testimony of a victim of repression
Yesterday (July 30) was very sad and difficult for people to protest against the coup. Was prepared to take a road before reaching the town of Siguatepeque on the slope of the virgin. We had like 300 people including farmers, teachers, male and female representatives of Comal, COMUCAP, rivers, and other COLPROSUMAH. The vehicular traffic was stopped to demand the return of President Zelaya. The measures of eviction by the de facto government were first sent a plane to consider our position, many people and to provide information to military and police to corner and do what they say hammer operation.
And was evicted us, but once more was not at peace as the police said in a media coup, "The eviction was peaceful and course it did not happen!
We are besieged, we did a lot of shots, ran to protect us from looking where they were doing the shooting, bullets are live ... run into the bush and in the houses escondámonos said, for fear of being struck by a bullet. We chased into the bush and began to revise homes, people came out with their hands up for women and the elderly clubs, beat kicked, grabbed the hair of the face leading to scrub the pavement. The men were severely beaten with kicks, clubs being heavily wounded and fractured.
After that they rose to the commands captured by them, to fill the command of people in the same command and threw tear gas as people crane their necks looking not supported by the gas at the rioters to go on command, making This action received garrotazos department of the military.
Then they moved to the prison in Comayagua, being imprisoned 66 men and 40 women, mostly women COMUCAP in mind Maria Edith Villanueva Award National Food Security, FAO 2007, Honduras.
The report of the wounded managed the Red Cross of Comayagua, they can attest to how many people attended and that led to the Hospital of Santa Teresa for being seriously state. Some of the companions were not treated in this hospital for not having the necessary equipment, so they were taken to Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, in the case of Aguilar Gustavo Argueta that will be run today because he has two fractured clavicles.
This step not only to us, because we realize that the same thing happened to colleagues in Tegucigalpa, Santa Rosa de Copan and elsewhere in the country.
Bullshit is not eviction in Peace! SLAUGHTER IS THE PEOPLE THAT resists. "For goodness sake, stop suppressing," Monsignor Romero, El Salvador.
The violent eviction in Durazno
Several injured in demonstration in the eviction of Peach, exit North, Tegucigalpa. Helicópteros threw tear gas from a helicopter. Beating women with their legs toletes. Against demonstrators threw a barbed wire fence. Destroyed the cameras of reporters. There were many detainees. COBRA members and police fired indiscriminately at protesters. Police did not allow ambulances to attend the wounded. Resistance leader Juan Carlos Reyes Barahona and were savagely beaten and arrested. Professor Roger Abraham Vallejo (1971-2009) died as a result of the gunshot wound he suffered in the head while peaceful demonstrations.
Repression in Alauca, El Paraíso
Among the nine p.m. yesterday and three in the morning July 28 a contingent of soldiers were mobilized to catch Alauca to violently evict the demonstrators who were in this area. In this repression were arrested about 65 men, 20 women and several children. These people reported that they have suffered physical and verbal aggression while brutally kept in a football stadium. However, it is feared for his life because they were mounted on trucks and buses aimlessly known.
In this confrontation, an unknown number of demonstrators to avoid being arrested ran and entered into the mountains, but are being besieged by military patrols that are crawling to avoid arriving at the border with Nicaragua. Se ha denunciado que un militar conocido como Tigre Bonilla, esta organizando a los reservistas de las fuerzas armadas y otros grupos armados para que operen como paramilitares en las montañas de la zona fronteriza con Nicaragua y asesinen a todas las personas que se desplacen por esta zona inhóspita.
Por otro lado, dos mujeres pertenecientes al comité de disciplina del Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe de Estado fueron arrestadas hoy por la mañana, luego de ser engañadas por los policías de un reten que les autorizaron el paso para separarlas del grupo de manifestantes y proceder a arrestarlas. La vida de estas jóvenes se encuentra en peligro pues pertenecen al mismo comité del joven Pedro Magdiel Muñoz Salvador torturado y asesinado por la policía y militares el 25 de julio del presente año.
En el marco de este acto de represión, desde ayer a las nueve de la noche la señal de la emisora Radio Globo se encuentra bloqueada en el Departamento del Paraíso con la finalidad de evitar que los manifestantes en la zona fronteriza denunciarán e informarán sobre la represión ocurrida.
En la zona del Paraíso se ha establecido un estado de sitio por mas de 100 horas y no se ha permitido que las caravanas con ayuda humanitaria lleguen a los manifestantes retenidos sin alimentación y medicamentos en esta zona, ocasionando el detrimento de la salud de estas personas. De igual forma, los pobladores del Departamento del Paraíso denuncian que con este bloqueo se están agotando los alimentos de todos los moradores en la región fronteriza.
En este momento hay alrededor de 4,000 hondureños que han logrado cruzar la frontera atravesando las montañas y se encuentran refugiados en Nicaragua.
Los hechos antes expuestos ponen en evidencia la continua violación a los derechos humanos ejercida por el gobierno golpista. Por ello, se solicita a la comunidad internacional que establezca medidas de presión mayores a este gobierno de facto que esta reprimiendo brutalmente al pueblo hondureño. Y se solicita ayuda humanitaria para atender a los compatriotas presenten en la zona fronteriza entre Honduras y Nicaragua.
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