Gaza. August 3, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) - The president of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH from the initials in Spanish), Andres Pavon, accused this Saturday the dictatorship of Roberto Micheletti, of contracting Israeli "specialists" to advise the Honduran armed forces in represion techniques.
In a prense conference, Pavon accused the de facto government of hiring an Israeli private security group to advise Police about the agressive attitude that they need to have against the protesters.
Pavon announced that all these illegal and violent actions are being documented by CODEH in order to denounce them in an international level.
On the other hand, the Police anounced this Saturday its intention to repress by all its means the protests against the millitary dictatorship.
An official public release reminds to the Hondurans that according to the Law, "whoever calls or leads in an illegal way any gathering or demonstration" should be punished with 2 to 4 years imprisonment and a fine of 30.000 to 60.000 lempiras (from 1.578 to 3.157 US dollars).
"They will be of an illegal character all those gatherings where participants have guns, explosive devices or blunt objects or in any other way dangerous in order to commit a crime", underlines the press release.
"The assistants will be punished with half of these penalties", according to the Police that has harden its measures during the last days, disolving protests with bullets in various regions of the country.
During the latest incidents there have been reported more than fifty injured and wounded people all over the country, including Roger Abraham Vallejo, who died on Saturday, after the Police shot a bullet to his head, during a protest in Tegucigalpa.
The official warning points out that "any person that during a gathering or a demonstration, brakes the law, will be arrested and submitted to the relevant authority"
source: www.lahaine.org
Translated for Pal Telegraph by GK
photo: the martyr Roger Vallejo
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