Honduras

Padre Tamayo is one of the leaders of the Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO) in Honduras. MAO wants to prevent the illegal stripping of the forests which results in the drying up of the rivers and the impoverishment of the land. Because they challenge powerful economic interests the members of MAO are regularly targeted. In 2007 Heraldo Zuñiga and Roger Ivan Cartagena were assassinated. Rene Gradis Coordinator of Mao has survived two attempts on his life while Padre Tamayo who is Advisor to the group has a contract of $40,000 on his head. 

Front Line welcomes the news that the killers of human rights lawyer Mr Dionisio Díaz García, named Mr Ramón Eusebio Solís and Mr César Amador, were found guilty by Judge Mario Rolando Díaz on 29 February 2009. Dionisio Díaz García was a member of the Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa – ASJ (Association for a more Just Society), a non-governmental organisation which works to promote economic, social and cultural rights in Tegucigalpa. 

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports of death threats received by human rights defender, Ms Bertha Oliva de Nativí, on 27 January 2009. Bertha Oliva de Nativí is the General Coordinator of the Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras – COFADEH (Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees in Honduras). An urgent appeal was issued by Front Line on 22 August 2008 regarding the break-in at COFADEH's offices and the surveillance of Bertha Oliva de Nativí. 

Donny Reyes is the Treasurer of Arcoiris, the Rainbow Association for Lesbians, Gays, Transvestites and Bisexuals in Honduras. He was arrested outside his office, taken into police custody, beaten and assaulted. No one has yet been charged. 

Front Line is concerned by reports of attacks against several human rights defenders in the communities of Agalteca and Orica in the department of Francisco Morazón, Honduras. Raymundo Rodríguez, Abel Hernández, Jairo Domingo and Franklin Martínez are members of the Comité Ambientalista de Orica (Environmental Committee of Orica) and Mario Adolfo López is a member of the Committee in the village of Agalteca. Both Committees work in defence of the natural resources of the area.