Honduras: Fear for safety / extrajudicial killing

Ernesto Sandoval Bustillo and members of CODEH: On 10 February 1998, Ernesto Sandoval Bustillo, a regional coordinator for the non-governmental Comité para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Honduras, (CODEH), Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Honduras and former Justice of the Peace, was shot dead by unidentified men. His killing has heightened fears for the safety of other CODEH members who have recently been subjected to surveillance in an apparent attempt to restrict the organizations’s legitimate activities.

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