Amid Protests, Honduran President Is Sworn In for 2nd Term
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Amid Protests, Honduran President Is Sworn In for 2nd Term
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras
have called on security forces to stop what they called the "illegal and excessive use of force" to break up protests.
27, 2018
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Facing a polarized nation in the aftermath of a disputed election, Juan
Orlando Hernández was sworn in on Saturday for a second term as president of Honduras.
Raúl Pineda Alvarado said that Politically, they picked the worst moment to approve this law,
Juan Jiménez Mayor, a former prime minister of Peru, who leads the anticorruption panel, denounced the law
and said it would block investigations into as many as 60 current and former Honduran legislators, as well as high-ranking officials in the government.
Edmundo Orellana said that This is a decision taken at the highest political levels of the country and it is irreversible,
As many as 22 people have been killed by security forces, according to a tally by
the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras, a human rights group.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras
have called on security forces to stop what they called the "illegal and excessive use of force" to break up protests.
27, 2018
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Facing a polarized nation in the aftermath of a disputed election, Juan
Orlando Hernández was sworn in on Saturday for a second term as president of Honduras.
Raúl Pineda Alvarado said that Politically, they picked the worst moment to approve this law,
Juan Jiménez Mayor, a former prime minister of Peru, who leads the anticorruption panel, denounced the law
and said it would block investigations into as many as 60 current and former Honduran legislators, as well as high-ranking officials in the government.
Edmundo Orellana said that This is a decision taken at the highest political levels of the country and it is irreversible,
As many as 22 people have been killed by security forces, according to a tally by
the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras, a human rights group.