Letter to Honduran Attorney General Rubi
After one week of accompanying Honduran human rights organizations and social movements, the Quixote Center Emergency Delegation of Solidarity, Accompaniment and Witness prepared a letter outlining violations of human rights that urgently need to be addressed. Today, these concerns were presented in a meeting with the Ambassador of the United States and the Attorney General of Honduras. (En Español)
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August 7, 2009
Attorney General of Honduras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Luis Alberto Rubi
Attorney General
As the fourth consecutive International Human Rights delegation present in the country since the coup d’état, we are writing to express our deep concern regarding the grave and rapidly deteriorating situation of human rights in Honduras, beginning with the events which occurred early in the morning of June 28th. In the name of the human rights observation groups which have visited (The Bi-Regional European Network Linking Alternatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, The Human Rights Delegation Headed by Rigoberta Menchu, The Center for Justice and International Law, and the Quixote Center/Quest for Peace), we ask that you provide us information about the following cases, and indicate what your office has been doing regarding the troubling human rights situation in Honduras.
On Monday morning we went to the two locations where the wakes were being held for the two teachers who were killed in the last few days. One teacher was shot on Thursday, and died on Saturday from gunshot wounds to the head. Another was stabbed on his way home from the Saturday wake. At the press conference/rally which was held before his funeral, teachers declared that they would strike all week th