Elections "Honduras style" bullets, tear gas, clubs and DETAINEES

30/11/2009

Elections "Honduras style" bullets, tear gas, clubs and DETAINEES

Forty-eight people detained illegally was the result of a violent eviction carried out the riot police against a peaceful demonstration performed by the National Resistance Front in San Pedro Sula on election day.

From ten in the morning members gathered in front of the market sector known as the Dandi, to initiate action to protest the elections called by the de facto regime and advertised as the solution to the political crisis. A few meters from the central park came the Via Crucis remembered by name and last name 30 people who died under the coup, and that was when the police came against the demonstration.

Without a word, about 200 police elements on foot opened fire tear gas, while from the pressurized water tanks and threw pepper gas against dozens of people, who to repel the attack was laid on the floor, making the police firing back away.

Among those beaten were international journalists, a cameraman for Reuters news agency, and protesters were blows to the head, face and other parts of their bodies kicked and homers product that handed them forces security.

During the crackdown, the protesters dispersed through the streets surrounding the park, but an hour later focused on the public square, where they were again suppressed.

At the end of the second repression were reported about 10 people wounded by bullets fired by police weapons, plus several cars with broken glass product of the fury with which the police attacked the demonstrators to achieve the forfeiture of the crosses used by the Protestant . At the end of the day, forty-eight people arrested and subsequently left in freedom thanks to the work of lawyers in resistance, as they had been arrested without a warrant.