"PBI-Honduras concerned by arbitrary detention of CNTC El Progreso general secretary Lilian Borjas", 02 May 2024

...PBI-Honduras has posted: “From PBI, we show concern about the arrest of Lilian Borjas, general secretary of the CNTC in El Progreso. We recommend that the international community speak out in solidarity with her. At PBI, we are very aware of your safety and well-being.”

Criterio.hn reports: “On the morning of Tuesday, April 30, members of the National Police detained human rights defender Lilian Borjas at a police checkpoint in Pico Bonito, La Ceiba, Atlántida, as a result of a criminalization process of which she was a victim in 2013 for her work as an ombudsman, for which she should have been released for four years. In this sense, the National Network of Human Rights Defenders in Honduras, denounced the ‘incompetence’ of the judicial system, because the system has not been updated, which has led to revictimization and continuous stigmatization against land defenders.”

That article further explains: “The criminalization campaign against Lilian Borjas began in 2013 because of her struggle in defense of land and territories and for denouncing the actions of agro-industrial companies against peasants, and the acts of corruption and abuses by judges to carry out violent evictions”...