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HONDURAS
CASE No. HOND/02 - MIGUEL ANGEL PAVÓN SALAZAR

Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 180th session
(Nusa Dua, Bali, 4 May 2007)

The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

Referring to the case of Mr. Miguel Angel Pavón Salazar of Honduras, who was murdered in January 1988, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/180/12(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 179th session (October 2006),

Recalling that one of the suspects of Mr. Pavón's murder died during Hurricane Mitch and the other, Mr. Jaime Rosales, was extradited from the United States in August 2003; he was acquitted of the murder at first instance, but the judgment was quashed on appeal and he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment; an application for judicial review of that judgment is still pending before the Supreme Court,

  1. Notes that no information has been provided as to any decision the Supreme Court may meanwhile have taken on that application challenging the conviction of Mr. Rosales;

  2. Requests the Secretary Generalonce again to contact the competent authorities and the source with a view to obtaining that information;

  3. Requests the Committee to continue examining this case and report to it at its next session, to be held on the occasion of the 117th Assembly (October 2007).
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