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Wednesday April 25th, 2018 with Sonia
Entrevista con Karen Spring, de la Red de Solidaridad con Honduras (Honduras Solidarity Network)

#FreeEdwinEspinal #Justice4Berta #hondurasresist STAND WITH HONDURAS: Free The Political Prisoners and Justice for Berta Caceres On Tuesday May 1st, Join us together with: Berta Zuniga Cáceres, daughter of Berta Cáceres, Karen Spring, Honduras Solidarity Network, members of the Simcoe County Honduras Rights Monitor and others to demonstrate your support for justice and the freedom of political prisoners. 10-11am: Solidarity Demo for Justice & Freedom of Political Prisoners Parliament Hill 7:30-9:30pm: Public Event “Canada’s Hand in Honduras: Political Prisoners & the Investigation of Berta Cáceres’ Murder” PSAC Building, 233 Gilmour St *************************************** STAND WITH HONDURAS: FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS – Edwin Espinal and 20 other political prisoners are being held in horrific conditions in maximum security prisons on trumped up charges for speaking out against a corrupt government that has been consolidating control since the 2009 military backed coup. – Honduran armed forces violently attacked hundreds of protests after elections in November 2017 in which over 30 people were killed; the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has recognized that at least 16 were shot to death by security forces – The investigation into the brutal murder of world-renowned Indigenous environment defender Berta Cáceres in 2016 has fallen short of arresting and prosecuting all material and intellectual authors, particularly suspects with links to the government, while members of her organization COPINH continue to be persecuted – The Honduran government gains its sense of legitimacy from the international support of Canada, the U.S. and other foreign governments, which enables it to repress people with impunity, denying people their rights, raiding government coffers and crushing pro-democratic voices. – Members of the rural community of Elmvale and the Township Council of Springwater Ontario are standing by the Spring family in their fight to free son-in-law Edwin and all political prisoners. We call on Canadians everywhere to ask the Trudeau Government to: – Use all means at its disposal to pressure Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to end human rights violations in the country: – Suspend all Canadian government support to Honduras until political prisoners are free without charge, the rule of law is upheld. *** For more info: Web: https://simcoecountyhondurasrightsmonitor.wordpress.com/ Endorsed by: Simcoe County Honduras Rights Monitor, Honduras Solidarity Network, MiningWatch Canada, Education In Action, Solidarity Ottawa, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, PSAC Social Justice Fund, ALBA Social Movements and more to come…