TEHRAN, January 21 -Police and protesters have clashed in Honduras’ capital and across the Central American country, amid growing discontent over the disputed re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Police and protesters have clashed in Honduras’ capital and across the Central American country, amid growing discontent over the disputed re-election of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Violence erupted on Saturday after protesters blocked roads in several locations and police moved in to break up the barricades set across the capital, Tegucigalpa, and elsewhere in the country.
Security forces fired tear gas at the rock-throwing supporters of the center-left Opposition Alliance against the Dictatorship in Tegucigalpa and tried to clear roadblocks of burning tires.
“Out with JOH, out with the dictator,” masked protesters shouted in Tegucigalpa's Miraflores neighborhood, using President Hernandez’s initials.
The opposition had days earlier called for a “national strike” on January 20 to block the country’s main roads and highways prior to the start of the president’s new term in office on January 27.
Local media and security sources reported that at least one protester had lost his life and three police officers had sustained injuries in the Saturday clashes. Twelve other demonstrators were also detained across the country.
Former President Manuel Zelaya has thrown his support behind the protesters on behalf of presidential opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla, who claims there was widespread fraud in the November 26 election.
“We have to stay in the streets,” Zelaya said. “If they move us from one spot, we have to move to another. We need to be permanently mobilized to keep up the pressure and prevent the dictator from installing himself.”
Source:Press TV
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