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30th November 2009, 19:52
Excerpts from http://www.marxist.com/honduras-election-repression-boycott-resistance.htm
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Police entered the houses of ordinary people looking for anti-election material and seized paint and paint sprays. Many of those arrested had been accused of illegal association.
the army raided the offices of different trade union and community organisations in search of anti-election publicity... The offices of Red Comal in Siguatepeque were also raided on Saturday and the army seized computers and money. On election day itself, a bomb went off outside the offices of the Womens Rights Centre in San Pedro Sula. The headquarters of STIBYS, the trade union of beverage workers... were attacked with machine gun fire in a drive by shooting.
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Regarding opposition radio station Canal 36... 80% of the time is off the air, because the Army is broadcasting a powerful signal on the same wavelength, particularly when the station is broadcasting news or opinions against the de facto government.
there have been more than 74 police and army searches without warrant in houses of different activists, and more than 100 people arrested on election day alone.
http://www.marxist.com/images/thumbs/270x179-images-stories-honduras-elections_nov29_2.jpg
Police entered the houses of ordinary people looking for anti-election material and seized paint and paint sprays. Many of those arrested had been accused of illegal association.
the army raided the offices of different trade union and community organisations in search of anti-election publicity... The offices of Red Comal in Siguatepeque were also raided on Saturday and the army seized computers and money. On election day itself, a bomb went off outside the offices of the Womens Rights Centre in San Pedro Sula. The headquarters of STIBYS, the trade union of beverage workers... were attacked with machine gun fire in a drive by shooting.
http://www.marxist.com/images/thumbs/270x179-images-stories-honduras-elections_nov29_1.jpg
Regarding opposition radio station Canal 36... 80% of the time is off the air, because the Army is broadcasting a powerful signal on the same wavelength, particularly when the station is broadcasting news or opinions against the de facto government.
there have been more than 74 police and army searches without warrant in houses of different activists, and more than 100 people arrested on election day alone.