Zelaya followers sentenced to house arrest for sit-in in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Zelaya followers sentenced to house arrest for sit-in in Honduras
2009-10-08 09:44:30

TEGUCIGALPA, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- 49 Honduran peasants were sentenced to house arrest for their sit-in protest against the June 28 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The peasants, who said to protest for 90 days in a public building, were evicted by police from the National Agrarian Agencylast week and sent to jail.

According to the sentence, they will have to report regularly to the authorities instead of serving jail terms and will be unable to leave the country.

Luis Echeverria, prosecutor of common crimes in Honduras' public ministry, who named the peasants' action as sedition, told media that Judge Laura Casco had made the ruling.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/08/content_12193130.htm

[EFerrari]

1. I wonder how many people are in some kind of detention right now.

They can't put the whole country behind bars or even in a monitored house arrest. Their curfews are very bad for working people and people without refrigeration -- most of the country -- but they get broken by brave protesters.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's impossible those who lived through the 1980's there are going to be willing

to go through this kind of crap from fascists again. Their kids would undoubtedly support that absolute answer to this filthy, underhanded, dishonest, brutal, greedy, shabby operation.