Armed men surround the home of wife of murdered unionist Julio Fúnes Benitez
Lydia reported that just days before the murder of her husband a man remained watching their house
On Monday, February 15 Funes Benitez was killed by men on motorbikes, he was a social activist who said he joined decidedly the popular protests, "for those not wanting to fight."
According to versions of the people close to the deceased, that day the local police did not respond to reports of the assassination, that contributed to the executors to leave quietly after committing the crime. Although the street has only one exit, the attitude of the police seems bordering with complicity, since it was a criminal act and they did not act upon it.
Mrs. Lydia, who is the wife of Julio, reported that she fears for her life as much as that of their three daughters, since the presence of strangers alerted the entire colonia Brisas de Olancho where they reside, and as stories of many people narrate, the three men have the same characteristics of the murderers of the trade unionist.
In this community many people are in resistance. They gathered in the park where they talked about the actions to be undertaken by the National Front for Popular Resistance FNRP. This park is located a few steps from the police station, where policemen did not heed the cries for help from the daughters of the deceased, who begged them to arrest the murderers could not have escaped if there had been diligence on the part of agents, since the colonia has only one exit.
Mrs. Lydia reported that just days before the murder of her husband a man remained watching the house and went so far as almost sticking his head inside the wall, "I thought it might be a thief but I know that my husband was on surveillance", she said very distressed.
Apparently, they are also persecuting the teacher Agustina Hernandez, director of Reina Espana School in Colonia Brisas de Olancho, who participated in the march of resistance.
Repressive forces keep journalism students harassed for being in the resistance
Students are being subjected to persecution and harassment by the repressive forces
Mejia was arrested March 14 along with Josue Armando Velasquez Contreras, also a student of the School of Journalism at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, who were arrested while protesting the American intervention in the murder case of Joseph Ochoa, another student journalist who was killed by gunmen when he was driving in his car, next to the also journalist Carol Cabrera, last 01 March preceding.
Relatives of the young Ochoa asked the American Embassy and Ambassador Hugo Llorens, not to enter the case by allowing Cabrera out of the country, as they say there is suspicion of her involvement in the crime.
Hence fellow journalism students staged a peaceful march from the National Autonomous University of Honduras to the embassy mentioned, and it was there where both Velazquez Contreras and Mejia were captured.
According to testimony given before the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH, at about 12:00 on March 14 they were arrested and beaten by officers when they were near Centro Comercial Los Proceres when they came from the demonstration .
"The patrol where they took us came from a street that went through the embassy, then they took us to the Manchén police station, where they took our personal data, then they removed our shoelaces and took us to a cell.
The mother of one of the boys reported on Radio Globo that her son was arrested, beaten, they tore his shirt, besides treating him and the other student with nasty language.
Mejia told before the COFADEH that when they were in the cell, one of the officers who arrested them came in his undershirt, he asked where they lived and studied and said, "we were idiots for going to those things."
He added that they were left free because the lawyers of COFADEH came, representatives of the Democratic Unification Party Youth and a Member with an attorney of that party.
Mejia alleged that the day of the coup a white car without license plates parked outside his home all day long and agents of the DNIC, National Directorate of Investigation arrived his home at about nine o'clock at night.
"They told my mom to get out of the resistance because if not, I was going to disappear. Two days after that Jonathan Osorio was murdered, a partner with whom I went to college and we both belonged to the Youth of the UD, he was the victim of beatings and torture by agents of the DNIC.
He said that also on September 22 when President Manuel Zelaya Rosales arrived the Brazilian Embassy, about five in the morning they were evicted by the army and national police and he and thousands of people had to run, but dispersed and he went to the headquarters of the UD. During those same days, several soldiers went to search for him to his home but they left because he wasn't there.
But the persecution against him has not ended, two weeks ago while he was in classes in college, a young man in civilian clothes about 25 years came to take pictures and then ran away.
He blamed for anything that may happen to him, those who promoted the coup and the bodies of state repression.
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