Date
Type
18/07/2012
AL
19/07/2012
JAL
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
USA 11/2012
Summary executions; Alleged killings of civilians during a military operation. According to the
United States of
information received, on 11 May 2012, in a region called Mosquitia in
America
Honduras, a military operation supported by four helicopters and two aircraft,
carrying Honduran agents and Drug Enforcement Administration officials
from the United States of America, intercepted a boat in which a group of
civilians was traveling on the Patuca river in the Ahuas community
(Department of Gracias a Dios). One of the helicopters opened fire on the
boat which led to the death of four people: Ms. Candelaria Pratt Nelson; Mr.
Emerson Martínez Henriquez; Ms. Juana Jackson Ambrocio; and a minor
aged 14, and four others were wounded: Mr. Lucio Adán Nelson Queen; Ms.
Hilda Rosa Lezama Kenreth; Mr. Melaño Olopio; and a minor aged 14. These
facts are framed in the context of the anti-drug cooperation program that the
Government of the United States of America supports together with the
Government of Honduras.
BRA 8/2012
Brazil
Freedom of
expression; Freedom
of peaceful assembly
and of association;
Human rights
defenders;
Allegations of acts of harassment, intimidation and criminalization of activists
and human rights defenders of the Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre
(MXVPS) in the context of the protests against the construction of a
Hydroelectric Power Plant complex in Belo Monte, in the State of Pará.
According to the information received, a conference entitled Xingu +23 was
organized from 13 to 17 June by the MXVPS in the town of Santo Antonio to
commemorate the 23 years of protest against the Belo Monte dam project. On
13 June, a judge decided against the organization of the event, finding Ms.
Antônia Melo, Mr. Ruy Marques, Ms. Mônica Brito Soares and Mr. Lárazo
José da Silva Verçosa, members of the MXVPS, responsible for trespassing,
harassing or disturbing purported property. Following an alleged
investigation of the activities of the Xingu +23 event, the civil police of the
State of Pará issued an arrest warrant of 11 persons, including Ms. Antônia
Melo, Mr. Ruy Marques, Father Alirio Bervian, Sisters Agnes and Flora
Wenzel, Mr. Elio Alves, and Mr. Rafael Salazar.
A/HRC/22/67
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