Document #1332618
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on Honduran writer Rigoberto
Quezada, beyond that provided in Response to Information Request
HND20280.E of 19 April 1995, could not be found among the sources
consulted by the DIRB. That Response includes an article that
refers to the 1993 murder of Rigoberto Quezada in Honduras and
mentions his past affiliation with the Communist Party of Honduras
(Latinamerica Press 16 Dec. 1993, 3).
Please refer also to Response to
Information Request HND20987.E of 17 July 1995, which refers to the
four amnesties granted by the Honduran government in recent years,
as explained by the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in
Honduras (CODEH). The text mentions that two amnesties were passed
in the 1980s and two in the early 1990s, and that these covered
persons who had been sentenced, tried or subject to prosecution for
political and related ordinary offenses. An Amnesty International
document describes an amnesty which came into force on 24 July 1991
as "broad and unconditional", applicable to those who had been
"sentenced, against whom legal proceedings have been initiated or
who could be liable to prosecution" (AI Aug. 1991, 1). The
attachments originally included with HND20987.E are available at
your Regional Documentation Centre. Information on other amnesties
in the late 1980s or early 1990s could not be found among the
sources consulted by the DIRB.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below a list of
sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Amnesty International. August 1991.
Honduras: New Amnesty Law Comes Into Force. (AI Index: AMR
37/12/91). London, UK: Amnesty International.
Latinamerica Press [Lima]. 16
December 1993. David R. Dye. "Honduran Elections May Boost Human
Rights."
Amnesty International Report
1994.
Amnesty International Urgent
Actions.
Central America NewsPak [Austin,
Tex.]. Fortnightly.
Central America Report [Guatemala
City]. Fortnightly.
Human Rights Watch World Report
1994.
Latin American Weekly Report
[London, UK].
Material from the Indexed Media
Review (IMR) or country files containing articles and reports
from diverse sources (primarily dailies and periodicals) from the
Weekly Media Review.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Reports. Daily.
Newspapers and periodicals pertaining to
the appropriate region.
On-line searches of news articles.