Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras, OHCHR, issued a statement today condemning the death of Keyla Patricia Martínez, a nursing student killed in a police cell in La Hope, Intibucá.
The pronouncement of the representation of the United Nations, UN, in matters of human rights in the country believes that the facts could be constituting an extrajudicial execution and that, therefore, the same must be done in accordance with the provisions of the Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Illicit Deaths.
THEY REQUIRE EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION
Isabel Albaladejo, Representative of OACNUDH, He argued, “According to the Minnesota Protocol, investigations should be aimed at identifying not only the direct perpetrators, but also all other perpetrators of the death, including chain officials who they were complicit in it. “
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The repercussions of the events that took place on Sunday morning have been echoed in the media and in the international community. The death of Keyla Martínez, 26, who was in police custody, sparked a wave of protests from the Honduran population in the western city. Yesterday, through Forensic Medicine and the Public Ministry, the autopsy was confirmed in which suicide was ruled out as the cause of death of the young woman.
OHCHR urged the lines of the communiqué to the Honduran authorities to “develop without delay and by all available legal means a prompt, thorough, diligent and impartial investigation aimed at the determination of the truth and the persecution, prosecution and eventual punishment. of all the perpetrators, as well as the reparation of the victims and their relatives “.
CRIME FOR GENDER REASONS
At the same time, the organization pointed out that, because it was a violent death of a woman, it could have been committed for gender reasons. Therefore, they demanded that the judicial and investigating authorities not rule out this hypothesis from the mobile phone.
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The document recalls, in this sense, the international norms and standards in this type of research, through the Latin American Protocol Model for the investigation of violent deaths of women due to gender reasons.
The crime of Keyla Martínez took place in the framework of the national curfew, so OHCHR detailed that this principle does not exempt the State from its human rights obligations. these emergency measures should not be used as a pretext for human rights abuses and violations, “the statement said.
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Finally, OHCHR, after acknowledging the advances in research by the Public Ministry, Expressed its solidarity with the family of the victim and urged the Honduran authorities to take all necessary measures to ensure that the events are not repeated..