October 24, 2010 19:13 RED MORAZÁNICA DE INFORMACIÓN
Tegucigalpa 24 de octubre de 2010. The Committee for Defense of Human Rights in Honduras, CODEH, denounced the disappearance of the youth, Hector Mauricio Altamirano (17) after he was detained by the police.
According to the complaint by CODEH, "yesterday afternoon, a motorized police patrol made a stop signal to Altamirano. Immediately after a police car patrol arrived, they forced him to put the motorcycle inside the bed of the truck in which Mauricio was taken and ever since he's been missing."
The event took place in colonia Torocagua in Tegucigalpa, from where they transported him to the area known as "el poso"(the well), where they got him in the car patrol before the sight of several witnesses who observed while the police carried out this action of evident violation of human rights, according to the complaint made by CODEH.
From the moment of his abduction followed by his disappearance, members of CODEH and relatives of the victim have been looking for him in police stations, without positive results.
The organization reports that "at 8 in the evening, a friend of the victim received a call from phone 96109740. It was Mauricio's voice who told him that the police had him in a place he didn't know and were demanding from him in order to free him to pay the amount of 30 thousand lempiras(approx. US $1,600)”.
The abduction and disappearance of youth Mauricio Altamirano is of great concern for his family, in view, according to what CODEH reports, that Altamirano and his family have been constant victims of harassment from part of police assigned to the police post of colonia las Pavas, place where the victim lives.
According to the human rights organization, after the coup d'état, "during one of the aggressions by the state repressive forces, in an act of self-defense, the population tried to burn down the facilities. In the attempt, a motorcycle was burnt, which has been charged to the policemen. Ever since, police harasses Mauricio and his family linking them to burning the motorcycle".
CODEH reports that a month ago, young Mauricio was retained by the police assigned to the colonia Cerro Grande and to obtain his freedom his family had to pay 600 Lempiras.
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