Honduras' Supreme Court approves extraditing ex-president
Source: Associated Press
Honduras’ Supreme Court approves extraditing ex-president
March 28, 2022
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras’ Supreme Court on Monday approved the extradition of former President Juan Orlando Hernández to the United States to face drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Melvin Duarte, spokesman for the court, said the justices rejected Hernández’s last appeal. Duarte said there were no further routes of appeal available to him.
Hernández’s wife, former first lady Ana García, made public a letter in which the former president again asserts his innocence and claims to be the victim of “revenge and conspiracy.”
“In the end I realize there is the possibility facing three life sentences, which could become a living death for me,” Hernández wrote.
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