COPINH: Impunity and Human Rights Violations Reign in Honduras
CIVIC COUNCIL OF POPULAR AND INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF HONDURAS (COPINH)
CIVIC COUNCIL OF POPULAR AND INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF HONDURAS (COPINH)
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”.
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).
At a press conference on Friday, July 8th at the offices of the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), Father Fausto Milla and his assistant Denia Mejía announced their departure from Honduras. They have been victims of serious threats and harassment and have received no response to their denunciations from the responsible authorities.
This video was taken by a member of the Artists in Resistance collective of Honduras (Artistas en Resistencia) during the non-violent protest at the Soto Cano (Palmerola) military base in Honduras.