Telesur has video and photographs of the military shutting down Radio Globo
Honduras in Lucha: President Zelaya warns again that attack against embassy is imminent.
The regime is rounding up, detaining and torturing people in stadiums. Several reports have come out of 75 or more people currently being tortured in the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, and other reports like the one below from various other stadiums. Ominously reminiscent of Pinochet's Chile.
Dr. JUAN ALMENDARES ON TORTURE OF TEACHER, AUGUSTINA FLORES
Translator: Dr. Norman Givan
Dr. Juan Almendares, Honduran medical doctor and award-winning human rights
activist and current president of the Honduran Peace Committee as well as
the past secretary of the Coordinating Committee of Popular
Organizations.
I, Juan Angel Almendarez Bonilla, Honduran doctor, member of the Medical
Association of Honduras, registration number No 430, Executive Director of
the Center for Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims
and their Families (CPTRT) duly authorized by the person concerned and their
families, am bound for ethical reasons and respect for human rights to
submit the following testimony to both national and international human
rights organizations and world public opinion, regarding the violence and
torture of the subject Agustina Flores Lopez, a teacher of fifty years
specialising in Educational Management.
On 24 September at 6:30 pm, I was called by Berta Ceres, leader of the
Lenca indigenous organization COPINH, sister of Agustina and the President
of COFADEH, Berta Oliva, to urgently assess the condition of health of
Agustina, who is incarcerated at the Criminal Investigation Directorate
(DGIC) in Comayagla.
We visited with the team and Berta Ceres of COFADEH at the DGIC on 24
September 2009 at 7 PM ET close to the hour of curfew. The authorities in
control at that time allowed us to speak with and review the teacher.
By her own account Agustina Flores Lopez was taken prisoner by eight
policewomen on Tuesday 22 September between 6.00 and 6:30 am, while walking
in the area near the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.
“While one twisted my arms behind my back the other hit me on the face,
squeezed my neck and assaulted me. I had already been handcuffed– and I
recognised one of them with the surname Garcia. During the beating they
shouted at me” YOU ARE THE DOGS OF RESISTANCE, ITS GOOD THAT YOU SHOULD BE
FUCKED UP.
“First, they took me to Manchen and the patrol was carrying six members of
the resistance who had been beaten up. Then I was taken to the Chochi Sosa
Stadium where at first there were 11 detainees; but later I managed to see
about thirty members of the resistance who had been beaten and wounded.
Then I was moved on to the CORE VII detention center. They took my cell
phone and to date it has not been returned.
A clinical description of Agustina shows the following features:
Profound sadness, facial deformities and pain afflicting various parts of
the body: face, neck, back, arms and legs by the multiple traumas caused by
police. Occasional dizziness and vertigo with frequent loss of balance. Does
not remember whether she lost consciousness; sometimes are confused and
sleepy.
Has a history of suffering Primary Sjogren’s syndrome, with dryness of
ocular and oral mucous membranes and autoimmune problems that make her
susceptible to severe infections, especially under extremely unsanitary
conditions in prisons. She is under treatment for hypothyroidism, with two
hundred micrograms of levothyroxine. During her capture the taking of
levothyroxine tablets was suspended, putting her life in extreme danger.
This medication should be adjusted periodically under strict medical
supervision because of the extreme stress and the physical and psychological
torture under which teacher Lez Flores has been under.
Another of her major problems is hypertension. At the time of examination
she had a reading of 220/100 mmHg, which exceeds the value for
predisposition to cerebral vascular haemorrhage, due to the traumatic
situation in which she lives deprived of liberty.
Among other findings:
Bruises from blows, with bruises below her lower lip and right labial region
with inflammatory edema of the right half of lower lip, contusion area on
the labial mucosa on the same side and right molar area ecchymosis of
approximately 4 cm in an almost rectangular form.
Pain in the antero lateral left neck with blunt injuries and severe pain and
spasms of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Neck movements associated with
paresthesia (tingling) in both bilateral upper limbs.
Severe pain that follows the anterior and lateral thigh.
Severe pain in the shoulder region, upper trapezius area and the back lumbar
region of the spine and pain adjacent to both sides of the traumatic spinal
injuries she received during capture.
Blunt injuries and muscular aches on the internal lateral left forearm.
Multiple injuries in blunt multiple trauma axillary, anterior right inner
arm.
Bruises on the left elbow region and posterior aspect of left arm and
ecchymotic circular lesions in the lower third of the inside of her left
arm.
Based on the above I consider that Agustina Flores Lopez has high risk to
her health as result of her imprisonment and should be transferred
immediately to a hospital and placed under medical supervision for physical
and psychological politraumatizatiwbr>n; to be evaluated by specialists in
Neurology, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy,
and provided counselling and under other conditions by trained personnel in
torture CPTRT. In a beautiful gesture Agustina told me that one of her major
concerns is not fulfilling her duties as a tutor to my grandchildren. Her
eyes filled with tears when she stated that one of the most horrible
experiences in her life has been to share the suffering and inhuman and
degrading treatment suffered by detainees in Honduras
Based on the above we demand the immediate release of Agustina Flores
Lopez; in addition to which, we have a moral obligation to demand freedom
for each and all political prisoners in Honduras following the military
coup.
According to information provided by the Association for Freedom of
Political Prisoners most of these people are deprived of their liberty in
the “Marco Aurelio Soto” National Penitentiary and accused of crimes and
sedition:
1. SANTOS GARCIA REYNARD MONCADA (Paradise)
2. ORLANDO GARCIA JOE MONCADA (Paradise)
3. MARIA GARCIA ANTOLINA HERNANDES (Paradise)
4. JOAQUIN GARCIA OSCAR MONCADA (Paradise)
5. ASUZENA GLADYS LAGOS (Paradise)
6. VICTOR RAMOS ADOLFO IZAGUIRRE (18) (Paradise)
7. MARIO ENRIQUE MOLINA DGIC (Tegucigalpa)
8. PORTA ANTONIO ALVAREZ (SPANISH)
9. MILTON MARTINEZ MATTHEW RYE (Tegucigalpa)
10. WALTER JOEL RODRIGUEZ ANDEAN (Tegucigalpa)
Two youths left with interim measures with the false charge of Aggravated
Robbery:
KOREA Ibraham VICTOR MARTINEZ
ARIEL FRANKLIN OLIVE BAQUEDANO
No, no basta rezar. Hacen falta muchas cosas para conseguir la paz. (video)
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