Lawmakers Ask State Dept. to Review Support for Honduras
By ELISABETH MALKIN, MAY 29, 2014 NYT
Honduras Accompaniment Project
Honduras Accompaniment Project works to accompany the nonviolent social movement in Honduras in the face of the repression begun by the coup.
Urgent Action from COFADEH on events in el Bajo Aguan
"16 people were captured including three members of the campesino leadership with precautionary measures issued by the IACHR on May 8, 2014."
Main points from Summary of Human Rights in Honduras- April 2014.
Listed below are the the main items from our April 2014 Honduras Human Rights Summary:
*Honduras featured in a number of reports by international organizations: IACHR, PBI Honduras, Global Witness.
*Government under criticism for continued failure to implement IACHR precautionary measures and for proposal to withdraw them from some beneficiaries.
PROAH Monthly Human Rights Summary – April 2014
Attached is our Summary of Human Rights issues and events in Honduras- April 2014
Amnesty International issues alert on José Ruelas
The Director of Casa Alianza Honduras, a children’s rights organization, was beaten and detained by military police on 8 May. He believes his mistreatment was in retaliation for speaking out against violence against children in Honduras and denouncing government inaction on the matter. The attached Pdf document is the Alert recently issued by Amnesty International regarding the case.
U.S. Department of Justice Dept. of Justice announces it will investigate the DEA role in Ahuas killings
Tragic deaths in Ahuas operation have never been properly investigated.
by U.S. Rep.
URGENT ACTION regarding the detention of José Guadalupe Garcia Ruelas
The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), expresses its full condemnation and concern regarding the illegal detention, and degrading, inhuman and cruel treatment against José Guadalupe Garcia Ruelas, Director of Casa Alianza Honduras.
Casa Alianza’s National Director Beaten for Reporting Systematic Killings of Children
May 9, 2014 Tegucigalpa
Ruelas holds President Juan Orlando Hernández responsible for the attack he suffered and stated it was the result of public complaints expressed in various media in recent weeks related to the violent deaths of children and adolescents, which he described as extrajudicial executions.
Casa Alianza’s National Director Beaten for Reporting Systematic Killings of Children
May 9, 2014 Tegucigalpa
Ruelas holds President Juan Orlando Hernández responsible for the attack he suffered and stated it was the result of public complaints expressed in various media in recent weeks related to the violent deaths of children and adolescents, which he described as extrajudicial executions.
Chronicle of Ruelas
Thursday, May 8, 2014. 7 p.m. Guadalupe Ruelas leaves his office at Casa Alianza and heads for the Marriot Hotel where he is invited to have dinner with an international agency.
11:00 p.m. Ruelas, the Director of Casa Alianza, leaves the hotel in a double cabin, Casa Alianza vehicle passing almost in front of the Casa Presidencial, where police motion for him to stop.