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Weekly Report - 26 May 2016 (WR-16-20)

UN puts Honduran impunity rate at over 90%

Christof Heyns, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for extrajudicial executions, has met privately in Tegucigalpa with the Honduran commissioner for human rights, Roberto Herrera. While Heyns made no public statement on the meeting, Herrera, on behalf of his office, issued an unusually critical statement, suggesting frustration with the lack of justice in the country at a time when the government led by President Juan Orlando Hernández is under international pressure over the murder of the leading environmentalist and indigenous activist Berta Cáceres in early March.

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