"INTERPOL Rejects Honduran Putsch Request
martes, 07 de julio de 2009
07 de julio de 2009, 15:29Lyon, France, Jul 7 (Prensa Latina) International Police Organization (INTERPOL) rejected on Tuesday a request made by the de facto government in Honduras, asking the institution to back the capture of President Manuel Zelaya.
The de facto government led by Roberto Micheletti requested the release of a "red code" on Zelaya, which would mean a request of "preventive detention for later extradition." In the opinion of INTERPOL, such a request violates article 3 of the organization, which strictly bans any activity or intervention "in matters of a political, military, religious or racial nature."
The alleged abuse of authority, usurpation of functions, insults against the government and treason imputed to Zelaya are of a political nature and lack any element of common law, INTERPOL argued. If the dictatorial government in Honduras requests Zelaya's capture, they should have allowed his return to the country last Sunday, when he tried to do it by plane from Washington. However, "the Honduran authorities prevented the plane from landing in Tegucigalpa, where they could have applied for a national detention warrant," said INTERPOL.
"If that information is accurate and the national authorities refrained deliberately from practicing the detention in their own territory, that would also prove the existence of purposes different from the defense of police cooperation," stated INTERPOL.
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