Pedro Salgado, president of the peasant settlement, La Concepción, in the Bajo Aguán and his wife Reina Mejía, were murdered in their own home in the settlement on Sunday, August 21 at 8:30 pm. La Concepción is part of the Peasant Movement of the Aguán, MUCA.
On July 5th, environmental activists from Valle de Siria, Carlos Amador and Marlon Hernández, were captured by police based on a warrant for their arrest issued by a local judge for the crime of “opposing logging carried out by the Raudales family”. Amnesty International Urgent Alert: Police have forcibly evicted 114 families, including young children, from a community in northern Honduras. Around 80 people are now living in a nearby community centre in unsanitary conditions that pose a risk to their health. On July 11th 2011, FIDH, APROEV, CIFCA, FIAN International, IUF and Via Campesina International presented at the European Parliament the conclusions and recommendations from the report of the international fact finding mission to Bajo Aguán valley, which took place from February 26th to March 4th 2011. They denounced the continuation of murders and grave human rights violations in Honduras. Friday, July 8, 2011. The death threats against Father Fausto Milla, a commissioner with the Commission of Truth, and his assistant Denia Mejía have escalated recently, resulting in their decision to leave the county this Friday. They said good-bye to fellow Hondurans during a press conference at the Committee of Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH). Tuesday, 28 June 2011 – Fr. Milla explained that he has received death threats by phone which ceased when he placed a caller identification feature on his phone. In a press conference on Tuesday, June 28th, the Commission of Truth denounced the threats against one of its Commissioners, Fr. Fausto Milla and his assistant, Denia Mejía Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) President Roberto Rivas announced that the CSE will publish the regulations for international and national election observation on August 16, after which the United Nations, European Union, Organization of American States and friendly countries will be able to send delegations to "accompany" the electoral process under the regulations and with the understanding that Nicaragua is a sovereign country.
International Organizations call for halt of criminalization against environmental defenders in Honduras
HONDURAS: VIOLENT FORCED EVICTION LEAVES FAMILIES AT RISK
Ongoing murders and grave human rights violations in El Bajo Aguán
Father Fausto Milla and his assistant flee Honduras
Comission of Truth denounces threats against its Commissioner Fr. Fausto Milla
Nicaragua to announce regulations for election observers
