Honduran Judges'' Sixth Day
of Hunger Strike
TEGUCIGALPA - Five Honduran judges have been
on hunger strike for six days in rejection
of the decision by the Supreme Court of
Justice (SCJ) of dismissing four magistrates
that condemned the coup against former
President Manuel Zelaya.
On Thursday, another two people joined the
strike. At this moment, there are seven
strikers demonstrating in La Merced Park,
across the Congress, downtown Tegucigalpa.
The demonstrators seek to revert the
dismissal of Judges Alonso Chevez and
Guillermo Lopez (both strikers), Ramón
Enrique Barrios, and Tirza del Carmen Flores
announced on May 5. They were sanctioned for
condemning the rupture of the constitutional
order on June 28, 2009 against the
government of Zelaya.
Honduran Deputy Marvin Ponce presented on
Friday a motion to the National Congress to
investigate the SCJ for the arbitrary
decision.
The legislator proposed to Congress the
appointment of a commission to analyze the
administrative behavior of the judicial
organ.
Judges Guillermo Lopez, Jose Pineda, Gerson
Medina, Pablo Munguia and Chevez, who are
members of the Association of Judges for
Democracy, went on strike on Monday, while
the two new members of the group are high
school student Michael Urbina and small
farmer Teodoro Carbajal.
Some authorities of the country have called
the judicial power to solve the problem and
revert the dismissals that also met the
repudiation of the National Front of Popular
Resistance and of human-rights
organizations. |
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