Honduran Attorneys on
Hunger Strike
Members of the Honduran
Attorneys Association
are on a hunger strike
to protest corruption
that involves the ruling
class of this Central
American nation.
The indefinite hunger
strike began April 7 in
protest of a decision by
the General Attorney
Leonidas Rosa Bautista
of firing or
transferring or
arbitrarily rotating
attorneys prepared to
try officials involved
in 16 cases.
Representatives of the
Committee of Relatives
of Detained Disappeared
of in Honduras called on
the national and
international community
for solidarity in
support of the attorneys
on the hunger strike.
The physical conditions
of the professionals are
worsening to such an
extent that Soraya
Morales and Elmer Diaz
were hospitalized last
Monday in the Honduran
Institute of Social
Security.
Physicians of the
capital hospital
explained that both
presented general
weakness, arterial low
blood pressure and
hypoglycemia as a result
of the long hunger
strike.
Members of the attorneys
association and other
humanitarian
organizations denounced
the politization of the
Attorney General and the
negligence demonstrated
opposing the causes of
corruption reported the
Radio Nizkor radio
station.
The participants of the
protest, headed by the
President of the
Association of Attorneys
of Honduras, Victor
Fernandez, demanded
immediate presentation
of the legal demands in
16 cases of corruption
that have been shelved.
They also demand
dismissals and rotation
threats removed against
those who use their
rights of free
association and
definition of a
mechanism that
guarantees attorneys
independence in their
functions and safety of
their lives. |
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