[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: FW: [Presente-Honduras] Gustavo Castro seized again by the government of Honduras!!!!]

Mon Mar 7 13:59:51 PST 2016

I was in Honduras in Jan on a human-rights delegation,  so this hits close
to my heart after all activists with whom our delegation visited and
witnessed.

Please read and do what you can.  I found the phone #'s problematical, so 
ended up sending e-mails.

In solidarity, Nancy Wallace-Nelson

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: FW: [Presente-Honduras] Gustavo Castro seized again by the
government	of Honduras!!!!
From:    "Maria Robinson" <mariarobinson1 at earthlink.net>
Date:    Mon, March 7, 2016 12:11 pm
To:      "Judy Ancel" <jancel at igc.org>
         melissastiehler at gmail.com
         nlnelson at mcn.org
         "'Rick Sterling'" <rsterling1 at gmail.com>
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This is super urgent- Can you get some calls going on this?

From: Presente-Honduras
[mailto:presente-honduras-bounces+mariarobinson1=earthlink.net at lists.mayfirst.org]
On Behalf Of Beverly Bell
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 11:22 AM
To: Presente-Honduras
Subject: [Presente-Honduras] Gustavo Castro seized again by the government
of Honduras!!!!

Below is an action alert put out this morning by Otros Mundos, the
organization headed by Mexican Gustavo Castro Soto, who is the sole
witness to the assassination of COPINH leader Berta Caceres. Gustavo was
providing peace accompaniment to Berta on her last night of life; he
himself was shot twice. Gustavo was detained in inhumane conditions by the
Honduran government for days for "questioning." He was then released and
was accompanied by the Mexican ambassador and consul to the airport in
Tegucigalpa. He was just about to go through customs when Honduran
authorities tried to forcibly grab him. The Mexican government
successfully intervened, and put Gustavo into protective custody in the
Mexican Embassy. Now, the Honduran government has prevailed and reclaimed
Gustavo, taking him back to La Esperanza. He is in terrible danger in
their custody, as what he witnessed is an impediment to the Honduran
government's attempts to pin Berta's murder on COPINH itself.

Please take the actions requested below. Like Berta, Gustavo is a key
leader to popular struggles against corporate extraction, government
malfeasance, and US intervention in Mesoamerica. As Berta was, Gustavo's
life is in grave danger.

The text below is from Otros Mundos this morning.

BREAKING! Gustavo Castro is in danger in the community of La Esperanza,
Honduras / March 7, 2016

- To the Secretary of Human Rights, Justice, Interior, and
Decentralization of Honduras

- To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras

- To the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

- For national and international attention

- To all organizations defending human rights

At present, the Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro Soto, Coordinator
of Other Worlds AC/Friends of the Earth Mexico, is adding to his statement
in La Esperanza, IntibucÃ¡, southeastern Honduras, where he was the victim
of an assassination attempt in which indigenous rights defender Berta
CÃ¡ceres was murdered on March 3.

We are on HIGH ALERT because his departure from the Embassy of Mexico and
transfer back to La Esperanza represent a high risk for his physical
security and psychological wellbeing.

On Sunday, March 6, upon trying to leave Honduras, legally and under the
protection of the Mexican Embassy in Honduras, he was arbitrarily
intercepted by Honduran authorities before passing through immigration at
the Tegucigalpa International Airport. They detained him under the
justification that he needed to expand upon his declaration, but without
notifying him of this previously.

We want to point out that Gustavo Castro in no way resisted making the
full declaration that was asked of him, and he has accepted this request
to expand his statement in the interest of clarifying the facts
surrounding the assassination of Berta CÃ¡ceres, and to avoid the
criminalization of members of COPINH.

Despite all of the requests made to ensure that this new declaration be
made under proper conditions, to guarantee his physical safety and
psychological well-being within the Mexican Embassy in Tegucigalpa, the
General Prosecutor decided that Gustavo needed to make his statement in La
Esperanza. We believe that this puts him in physical and psychological
danger. We demand guarantee for Gustavoâ€™s safety and security during the
process of expanding his declaration and during his travel from the
Embassy of Mexico in Tegucigalpa. We demand that the government of
Honduras fulfill its promise to lift the immigration hold that prevented
Gustavo Castro from immediately leaving Honduras after completing his
required statement, since there is no reason to keep him in the country.

We ask everyone to act and help us demand Gustavoâ€™s safety and security
by contacting:

The Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico/SecretarÃa de Relaciones
Exteriores de MÃ©xico, (55) 3686 â€“ 5100 y (55) 3686 â€“ 5581

gobmx at funcionpublica.gob.mx

@SRE_mx

The National Commission on Human Rights of Mexico/ ComisiÃ³n Nacional de
Derechos Humanos de MÃ©xico

(55) 56 81 81 25 y (55) 54 90 74 00

cenadeh at cndh.org.mx

@CNDH

The Secretary of Human Rights, Justice, Interior and Decentralization of
Honduras/La SecretarÃa de Derechos Humanos, Justicia, GobernaciÃ³n y
DescentralizaciÃ³n de Honduras

(504) 2232-7800 y (504) 2232-8900

@sdhjgdhn

Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Honduras

(504) 2236-0200 y (504) 2236-03-00

cancilleria.honduras at gmail.com

@SRECIHonduras

(Translated by Tanya Kerssen)

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