COFADEH

Honduras: Police tear-gas attack on human rights centre, COFADEHposted on: 2009/09/25

The office of human rights organisation, Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras – COFADEH (the Committe for relatives of disappeared detainees in Honduras), has come under a police tear-gas attack in Tegucigalpa on 22 September 2009. At the time of the attack the office was fully staffed and approximately 100 people, including women and children, were inside the building.

Honduras: Break-ins at the offices of COFADEH and intimidation and surveillance of COFADEH Coordinator Bertha Olivaposted on: 2008/08/21

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that the premises of the Committee of Families of Disappeared-Detainees in Honduras (Comité de Familiares Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Honduras – COFADEH) have been broken into on two occasions and that Bertha Oliva de Nativí, General Coordinator of COFADEH has been followed. COFADEH is a non-governmental organisation which works in defence of the rights of the disappeared and prisoners and also on the issue of land rights in Honduras.