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Zelaya Followers
Sentenced To House
Arrest For Sit-In In Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA - 49 Honduran
peasants were sentenced to house arrest for
their sit-in protest against the June 28
coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
The peasants, who said to protest for 90
days in a public building, were evicted by
police from the National Agrarian Agencylast
week and sent to jail.
According to the sentence, they will have to
report regularly to the authorities instead
of serving jail terms and will be unable to
leave the country.
Luis Echeverria, prosecutor of common crimes
in Honduras' public ministry, who named the
peasants' action as sedition, told media
that Judge Laura Casco had made the ruling.
The peasants will have an opportunity to
appeal within 20 days, he added.
The decision came as representatives of
Zelaya, who lost power in a June 28 coup,
and that of Roberto Micheletti, who became
president following the coup, met in a hotel
in Honduras' capital, Tegucigalpa for talks
brokered by the Organization of American
States.
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