Urgent: Human Rights Crisis in Honduras
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URGENT ACTION
Human and Political Rights Crisis in Honduras
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This online action is supported by Breaking the Silence, Common Frontiers, the Committee for Human Rights in Latin America, CoDevelopment Canada and Miningwatch Canada.
Since national elections on November 26, numerous examples of irregularities and electoral fraud have been documented by national and international observers. These irregularities and fraudulent activities favour the incumbent National Party candidate, Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been trailing Salvador Nasralla of the Opposition Alliance by a significant amount, late in the vote count on the 26th. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), which lacked representation from the opposition parties and whose president is closely aligned with the incumbent candidate, has lost all legitimacy with the Honduran population.
As with the protests after the military coup in 2009, these protests have been met with extreme violence and repression by military and police forces controlled by Hernandez and the National Party. The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) has reported that, as of December 7, at least 14 people have been killed as a result of violent state repression against protests, most by Military Police. As well, there have been 51 wounded (7 seriously) and 844 detained during the period that the Honduran government illegally imposed a military curfew and suspended constitutional guarantees across the country beginning December 1, 2017. This week, the Honduras Solidarity Network reports that repression has continued against a renewed wave of protests and that Radio Progreso has had their transmitter interfered with.
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Call on Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland to take a strong stand concerning electoral fraud, repression and violence in Honduras.
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