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CCR has been involved in advocacy aimed to address systemic human rights violations in Honduras arising out of the June 28, 2009 military coup d’etat that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. We have advocated against the U.S. government's current policy towards Honduras, particularly its continuing assistance and support to Honduran police and military forces whose involvement in the commission of serious human rights violations since the coup have been well-documented.
On June 23, 2011, CCR filed a complaint in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, on behalf of David Murillo and Silvia Mencías, the parents of Isis Obed Murillo who was a teenager when he was shot and killed by Honduran military forces during a peaceful demonstration against the military coup d’etat of June 28, 2009. The defendant is Roberto Micheletti Baín, former president of the Honduran National Congress who assumed the role of head of the de facto government immediately following the coup d’etat ousting President Zelaya. The complaint details extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity of murder and persecution, wrongful death and other gross human rights violations that occurred in Honduras under the authority and/or direction of Micheletti.
Read more with this link to CCR's full press release.
View the filing with this link to the Murillo v Micheletti Bain complaint.
On November 3, 2011, CCR filed a brief emphasizing that the case is one of the few opportunities for accountability for the wave human rights abuses committed during and in the aftermath of the coup. Micheletti is the former head of the de facto government immediately following the June 28, 2009 military coup that led to systemic attacks on and extrajudicial killings of members of the opposition movement and journalists that continue today.
(For additional information about CCR’s advocacy and litigation challenging the coup and repression in Honduras, click here.)
The case is currently awaiting the judge's ruling on Micheletti's motion to dismiss. Briefing on the defendant's motion was completed in November, 2011.
The claims for extra-judicial killing and persecution are brought under the Alien Tort Statute, the Torture Victim Protection Act and associated state law claims.
June 23, 2011 - CCR files suit on behalf of David Murillo and Silvia Mencías for the killing of their son, Isis.
September 28, 2011 - Micheletti filed motion to dismiss.
November 3, 2011 - CCR filed opposition to Micheletti's Motion to Dismiss.
Murillo v. Micheletti Complaint
Murillo's Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss
