An alarming pattern of widespread abuses and restrictions of civil liberties has emerged in Honduras since the June 28 coup, a leading human rights organisation reported on the weekend.
Preliminary findings by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) following a five-day visit last week uncovered “disproportionate use of public force, arbitrary detentions, and the control of information aimed at limiting political participation by a sector of the citizenry”.
The report comes just a few days after Amnesty International, the UK-based human rights organisation, published a damning report documenting repression and physical beatings carried out by Honduran security forces on supporters of President Manuel Zelaya, who was forcibly removed from power by soldiers on June 28.
The IACHR, an autonomous body of the Washington-based Organisation of American States (OAS), has confirmed the arrest of thousands of people since the coup.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Report cites Honduras abuses
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