Honduras’s human rights ombudsman’s office (Conadeh), the Office of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Honduras, and US-based rights lobby group Washington Office on Latin America (Wola) are among those signalling alarm about the state of exception recently announced by the leftist Partido Libertad y Refundación (Libre) government led by President Xiomara Castro in two areas, as part of a plan to crack down on gangs and extortion [WR-22-48]. The concerns suggest that assurances provided by Security Minister Ramón Sabillón, that the government was not following the lead of its Salvadorean counterpart, which has been widely condemned for human rights violations over its own crackdown on gangs, have yet to convince.End of preview - This article contains approximately 628 words.
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