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Honduras: News & Updates

Honduras did not experience civil war in the 1980s, but its geography (bordering El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua) made it a key location for US military operations: training Salvadoran soldiers, a base for Nicaraguan contras, military exercises for US troops. The notorious Honduran death squad Battalion 316 was created, funded and trained by the US. The state-sponsored terror resulted in the forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of approximately 200 people during the 1980s. Many more were abducted and tortured. The 2009 military coup d’etat spawned a resurgence of state repression against the civilian population that continues today.

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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 10/15/2015
October 15, 2015
assassination of two LGBT rights advocates and members of Association for a Better Life (APUVIMEH) (Gloria Carolina Hernández Vásquez and Jorge Alberto Castillo) and patterns of intimidation by police against other APUVIMEH members (Sandra Zambrano, Cristian Daniel Cortes Sagastume, Silvio Gerardo Artola, Carlos Alberto Cardona Varela)
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 10/11/2015
October 11, 2015
silencing of journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado who is unjustly banned from working by order of the Honduran Supreme Court
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 9/24/2015
September 24, 2015
assassination of three LGBT rights advocates (Violeta R., Angy Ferreira, Juan Carlos Cruz Andara), threats against six, and attacks on four over the past five months.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 9/11/2015
September 11, 2015
death threats and tampering with vehicle of Elizabeth Zúñiga, journalist working with SITRAUNAH (Union of Workers of the National Autonomous University of Honduras)
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 8/14/2015
August 14, 2015
surveillance, intimidation and harassment of Reina Lilian Rodriguez, Southern Regional Delegate of the National Human Rights Commission (CONADEH) and her team
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 7/13/2015
July 13, 2015
attack on Alfredo López, correspondent for Radio Progreso and the network of Garífuna community radio stations
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 7/1/2015
July 1, 2015
assassination of Héctor Martínez Motiño, President of SITRAUNAH (Union of Workers of the National Autonomous University of Honduras)and a lecturer at the Choluteca campus of the university.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/26/2015
June 26, 2015
death threats to journalist of David Romero Ellner, director of Radio Globo
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/25/2015
June 25, 2015
public defamation and legal harassment of Jackeline Jiménez and Sonia Martinez, who are demanding justice in the April disappearance of their brother and husband Donatilo Jiménez Euceda, president of a local chapter of SITRAUNAH (Union of Workers of the National Autonomous University of Honduras)
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/1/2015
June 1, 2015
surveillance and intimidation of Gladys Lanza Ochoa, Coordinator of the Honduran Women’s Committee for Peace (Visitación Padilla)
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