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

Resolution adopted unanimously by the IPU Governing Council at its 182nd session
(Cape Town, 18 April 2008)

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/182/12(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 181st session (October 2007),

Taking account of the letter of 27 March 2008 from the Secretary General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs,

Recalling the following information on file: the judicial investigations, which established a link between the murder of Mr. Pavón and evidence he gave in October 1987 before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in cases against the Government of Honduras concerning disappearances, after having come to a virtual standstill, were finally reopened in July 1996 by the Criminal Investigation Branch (DIC) of the Public Prosecutor's Office; they brought new evidence to light which resulted in the identification of two suspects, one of whom, Lieutenant Colonel Mario Asdrubal Quiñones Aguilar, was declared dead after Hurricane Mitch and the other, Sergeant Major Jaime Rosales, was extradited from the United States in August 2003 and stood trial; he was acquitted of the murder by a lower court, but the judgment was quashed on appeal and, on 16 June 2006, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment; an application for judicial review of that judgment was brought before the Supreme Court,

Considering that, on 18 April 2007, the Supreme Court dismissed the application and ordered the competent judge to execute the sentence, and noting that Mr. Jaime Rosales is now serving his sentence at the San Pedro Sula national prison,

  1. Is deeply gratified that the persistent efforts to ensure justice in this case have finally been brought to fruition;

  2. Decides to close its examination of the case in the light of its satisfactory solution; and requests the Secretary Generalto inform the competent authorities and the source accordingly.
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