Police arrested her accusing her of being "rustler" of the resistance

TUESDAY, 29 DECEMBER 2009 09:35 DINA MEZA

Three police officers illegally detained María Yolanda Chavarria and transferred her to a dark room of a police post, while being told  in  the patrol  that she was a  Cuatrera(rustler) of the resistance and that they had her pictures, last Dec. 22 in the vicinity of the center of Tegucigalpal.

To the Resistance she is known as the "Grandmother Two", she is  Teacher Maria Yolanda Chavarria, a 70 year-old woman  who since  June28th  is in the streets demanding a return to constitutional order and the return of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya Rosales . Her persistence has attempted to be broken by her  being  detained in a dark room of a police post, on  December22nd.

Chavarria is a Liberal Party member since the 50s and has suffered political persecution and abuses to her dignity on several occasions, including in 1963 by the army and the dreaded National Bureau of Investigation, which  today these structures have been renamed but not for practices that violate human rights, which have been honed through "training" by students of the School of the Americas, now called the Institute for Security Cooperation.

The Grandmother filed a complaint to the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, Cofadeh, which on Tuesday  Decembe22nd when she came near the center of the city, three armed policeofficers  surprised her  ordering her  to show them her wallet and then accompany them, they  put her  a police patrol and took her to the Fourth District police station in Belen Comayaguela. 

"When I was inside the patrol I  prayed Psalm 23 and  the police told me I was crazy because rustlers talk to themselves, when we reached the Fourth Station they took me down and I was not allowed to look back to see the number of the  patrol, what I did notice is that it had no license plate, "said the grandmother.

As in the worst periods of repression, they took her  into a darkened room, but for the same fate came a police lieutenant who was her pupil in school and she told him  that there was no order to arrest  her, "he told the policemen who arrested me that he didn't  give those orders to capture anyone let alone a lady of the elderly ". The officer took her away from the police post and took her home.

It is likely that the room where she was taken  is a quarter where they torture people, they are being used against detainees in the National Crime Squad, ID, where their nails were removed and  they are subjected to cruel taunts and have left public light under the coup.

The criminalization of public protest by the state security bodies has become very common since 28 June, people are arrested, tortured, disappeared or killed for participating in peaceful protests against the coup perpetrated by military in collusion with businessmen and politicians against President Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

The police and soldiers captured everybody suspected or  who they  might have pictures or videos of. The teacher  Chavarria told defensoresenlinea.com  the policedisrespecting her told her "and you know old daughter of .. We  have you  in Photos" and pushed.

The disrespect of human rights since 28 June has increased, during the weekend three youths were arrested, including a child under 17 years old, police went to a room where they were and brought them  accusing them of  them shouting at them "golpistas".

In this case there were two actions violating guarantees of citizens, one is the illegal detention that violates the Constitution of the Republic in its Article 98 "No person shall be detained, arrested or imprisoned for obligations not coming from crime or offense," also Univeral Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights Sushumna, among others.