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Prisoners of Conscience

Amnesty International is highlighting the use of politically motivated criminal charges to harass, intimidate, and deter opposition from individuals involved in defending the environment and a wide range of economic, social and cultural rights in Honduras. Such means were used to detain human rights defenders and indigenous activists affiliated to the Civic Council of Indigenous and Popular Organization (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Indígenas Populare,COPINH), Feliciano Pineda(1) and brothers Marcelino and Leonardo Miranda in the municipality of Gracias, Lempira department. Feliciano Pineda was arrested on 6 June 2005 and charged, among other crimes, with a murder committed in 2001. The Miranda brothers were sentenced on 16 December 2003 for the same crime. They remain in prison and are considered by Amnesty International to be Prisoners of Conscience.

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The judicial system in Honduras is being used to press politically motivated charges against indigenous leaders and prevent them from claiming land titles, said Amnesty International today as it launched an international campaign for the release of indigenous leaders Feliciano Pineda, Marcelino Miranda and Leonardo Miranda, from Montaña Verde, Gracias, Lempira department.

Feliciano Pineda was arrested on 6 June 2005 on charges of theft, damages, house breaking and the killing, in 2001 of Juan Reyes Gomez in an alleged land dispute. The arrest took place as Feliciano was in a hospital in Tegucigalpa, after three men with machetes seriously injured him.

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Advantage Rent-A-Car Inc. has added new affiliated car-rental partners in Spain, the Czech Republic, Honduras and Grenada.

San Antonio-based Advantage now has co-branded car-rental locations in 28 countries. Each location is part of the company’s reservation network.

U.S. customers can call Advantage to book vehicles throughout Europe, Mexico, South America, the Caribbean and Australia, usually at airport car-rental locations.

Crown Car Hire is Advantage’s new partner in Spain. The company provides airport service to customers in Malaga and Seville and local and airport services in Almeria, Gibraltar, Granada and Jerez, Spain.

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A drug-trafficking turf war inside Honduras’ top federal prison led to the grisly clash that left at least 13 inmates dead, authorities said Friday.

National Penitentiary Director Lt. Marvin Rajo, who was suspended indefinitely by President Ricardo Maduro following Thursday’s deaths, said two rival bands battled inside in a cell block housing 400 of the prison’s most dangerous inmates.

“The fight began because of a struggle between the two bands … to dominate drug sales,” Rajo said.

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