Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras, OHCHR, today issued a statement condemning the death of Keyla Patricia Martínez, a health care student killed in a police cell in La Hope, Intibucá.
Declaration of the representation of the United Nations, The UN, in terms of human rights in the country, believes that the events could be constituting an extrajudicial execution and that it must therefore be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Deaths.
REQUEST EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATIONS
Isabel Albaladejo, representative of OACNUDH, argued: “According to the Minnesota Protocol, investigations should aim to identify not only the direct perpetrators but also all others responsible for the death, including chain officials who were complicit in it.
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The repercussions for the events that took place early Sunday morning were repeated in the media and the international community. The death of Keyla Martínez, 26, in police custody, sparked a wave of protests from the Honduran population in the western city. Yesterday the autopsy in which suicide was ruled out as the cause of the young woman’s death was confirmed through Forensic Medicine and the Public Ministry.
In line with the statement, OHCHR urged the Honduran authorities to “develop without delay and by all available legal means a prompt, thorough, diligent and impartial investigation aimed at determining the truth and the prosecution, prosecution and possible punishment of all perpetrators, such as and reparation for victims and their relatives. “
GENDER OFFENSE
At the same time, the organization stressed that, as it was a violent death of a woman, it could have been committed for gender reasons. For this reason, they requested that the judicial and investigative authorities not rule out the reason for the event that the hypothesis.
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The document mentions, in this sense, the international norms and standards in this type of investigations, through the Latin American Protocol Model for the investigation of violent deaths of women due to gender reasons.
Keyla Martínez’s offense took place in national competition, for which the OHCHR explained that this principle does not relieve the state of its human rights obligations. these emergency measures should not serve as a pretext for human rights abuses and violations, “the statement said.
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Finally, OHCHR, after acknowledging the progress of the investigation by Public ministry, expressed its solidarity with the victim’s family and urged the Honduran authorities to take all necessary measures to ensure non-compliance.