DEMANDS

The above situation gives cause for concern, particularly regarding the lives and safety of the COPIN members and their families. COPIN is making the following demands:

• That the Office of the Human Rights Commission in La Esperanza be reopened
• That the government provide immediate protection for Salvador Zuniga and Bertha Caceres and their family, and other COPIN leaders who have also been threatened
• That the government carry out an evaluation of police and Public Prosecutor procedures in those cases against COPIN members, including a careful review of the legal complaint lodged against Pedro Sanchez.

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ACTIONS

1.) Please call or write (preferably in Spanish) short letters of concern, and send copies to the following offices:

Honduran Embassy to the US
T: 202-966-7702
F: 202-966-9751

President of Honduras
Carlos Roberto Flores Facusse
Palacio Jose Cecilio del Valle, Tegucigalpa
Tel: 001 (504) 239-3687
Fax: 001 (504) 239-4750
Fax: 011 (504) 237-1121

Ministerio Público

Abog. Roy Edmundo Medina, Fiscal
General del Estado
Tel: 001 (504) 239-3687
Fax: 001 (504) 239-4750

Supreme Court of Justice, Tegucigalpa
Presidente: Lic. Oscar Armando Avila
Fax: 011 (504) 233-7921

Defense Minister
Eduardo Duma Rodriguez
Palacio de los Ministerios, Tegucigalpa
Fax: 011 (504) 238-0238

National Commission for Human Rights
Commissioner Leo Valladares Lanza
Fax: 011 (504) 237-9238

Special Fiscal for Ethnic Peoples
Lic Gilberto Sanchez Chandia
Fax: 011 (504) 221-4094

Ministry of Public Safety
Elisabeth Chuiz Sierra
Fax: 011 (504) 235-9912

Please email copies of correspondence to:

• COPIN
  care of: CONPAH (Confederacion de Pueblos Autoctonos de Honduras)
  E: conpah@itsnetworks.net, or papica@sdnhon.org.hn
• Rights Action.

2.) Accompaniment:
If you are interested in going to Honduras and doing some human rights accompaniment work, contact Rights Action.

3.) Fundraising:
If you can support the work of COPIN, contact Rights Action.

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