Acção Urgente: Ambientalista ameaçado / Honduras

Publicamos esta acção urgente da AI, com uma carta pronta a enviar. Está em inglês porque não houve tempo para traduzir.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION APPEAL - UA 144/03
Fear for safety/Death threats - 21 May 2003

Priest Jose Andres Tamayo has reportedly been threatened with death due to his activism in protection of the environment in Olancho department, northern Honduras. Community leaders Gilberto Flores and Orlando Najera have also reportedly been harassed. Amnesty International is seriously concerned for their safety.

Jose Andres Tamayo, priest of the municipality of Salama, Olancho department, has reportedly been warned to leave the country by the end of May. The warning allegedly comes from a group of powerful men involved in the logging business (madereros) in the department. According to reports, on 19 May they agreed to call on the authorities to take action in order to force the priest to leave Honduras. On 5 and 6 May, the mayor of Salama reportedly said on four occasions that ''the environmental problem in Olancho will be only resolved by ordering the killing of Father Tamayo'' (''el problema ambiental en Olancho solamente se va a resolver mandando a matar al Padre Tamayo''). These statements were allegedly made in front of two members of Comite de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, (COFADEH), Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras, an organization working with community leaders in Olancho department.

Community leaders Gilberto Flores and Orlando Najera, who are campaigning against the construction of a hydroelectric dam in Olancho department, have also been intimidated by the police guards and local authorities. According to reports, police guards have recently fired shots in the air outside the house of Orlando Najer in the community of Ocotal, in Gualaco municipality.

Envie cartas ou e-mails (para o Presidente) até dia 2 de Julho para:

Lic. Ricardo Maduro
Presidente de la Republica de Honduras
Casa Presidencial, Boulevard Juan Pablo Segundo
Palacio Jose Cecilio del Valle
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Fax: 011 504 2214552
Salutation: Dear President/ Sr. Presidente
www.casapresidencial.hn (e depois clicar em "Escribe a la Presidencia")

Dr. Oscar Alvarez
Ministro de Seguridad Publica
Ministerio de Seguridad Publica
Edificio Poujol, 4o piso, Col. Palmira (Blvd. Morazan)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Fax: 011 504 220 4352
Salutation: Dear Minister/Senor Ministro

Dr. Roy Edmundo Medina
Fiscal General de la Republica
Fiscalia General de la Republica
Colonia Loma del Guijaro
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Fax: 011 504 221 5666
Salutation: Dear Attorney General/ Senor Fiscal General

Com cópia para:

Comisionado Nacional de Proteccion de los Derechos Humanos
Ramon Custodio Lopez
Avda. La Paz No. 2444
Contiguo a Galerias La Paz
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Fax: 011 504 232 6894
E-mail: central@conadeh.hn

Comite de Familiares de Desaparecidos de Honduras (COFADEH)
Apartado Postal 1243
Barrio La Plazuela, Ave. Cervantes
Casa 1301, a la par de JM Stereo
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Fax: 011 504 220 5280 (se alguém atender, pedir linha de fax: ''me da tono de fax, por favor'')

Ambassador Mario Miguel Canahuati
Embassy of Honduras
3007 Tilden St. NW Suite 4-M
Washington DC 20008
Fax: 1 202 966 9751
E-mail: embassy@honduras.org

Proposta de Carta: (faça copy/paste)

Your Excellency,

I'm concerned about the safety of Father Jose Andres Tamayo, following reports that he has been receiving death threats.

I'm also concerned about the safety of Gilberto Flores and Orlando Najera, after reports that they have been intimidated by local authorities and police guards.

I wish to urge you to take action to protect Father Jose Andres Tamayo, Gilberto Flores and Orlando Najera according to their wishes.

I request an immediate, thorough and impartial investigation into the campaign of harassment and threats to those named above, and that the results be made public and those responsible brought to justice.

Finally, I would like to remind you of the right of human rights defenders to carry out their activities without any restrictions or fear of reprisals, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights and Responsibilities of Individuals, Groups and Institutions to Promote and Protect Universally Recognised Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties, and in the equivalent declaration from the Organization of American States.

Yours Sincerely,
NOME
LOCALIDADE/CONCELHO, PAÍS

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