Assassination of 4 Student Leaders in Honduras Prompts Protests [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Assassination of 4 Student Leaders in Honduras Prompts Protests
Published 27 March 2015

Four high school students who organized several demonstration against Honduras’ education minister last week were found dead in the country's capital.

Soad Ham, a 13-year-old student leader of the Central Institute of Tegucigalpa who participated in the student protests against the Honduran government in the last two weeks, was found tortured and killed inside a plastic bag Wednesday.

On Thursday, the opposition Libre Party called for protests against the assassination Ham and 3 other student leaders this week. The largest public high schools in the country have been protesting against the decision to change the class schedule, which will mean that the students in the afternoon will leave their schools at 7 p.m. – a very dangerous hour for students to be on the streets of Latin America’s most dangerous city.

Public high schools are generally located in areas riddled with crime, and there is no public transportation services at those hours. Moreover, many students live in dangerous areas where organized crime has established curfew hours.

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