Three LGBTQ+ People Were Killed in Honduras on Same Day
Reportar sin Miedo.The outlet reports that witnesses said men in police officer uniforms killed the couple at the liquor store that Jonathan Martínez owned, according to The Washington Blade.
Reportar Sin Miedo reports a customer at the store died in the gunfire.The same day María Fernanda Martínez was shot to death in La Libertad, a municipality in Comayagua, which Reportar sin Miedo notes is in the middle of the country.
Her mother posted about her death on social media and wrote that María Martínez had attempted to move to the U.S., but was only able to travel to Mexico before she was deported for being a minor.María Martínez was shot more than 10 times, according to her mother’s post.The U.N.
High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Honduras office denounced the killings. In a Twitter thread, it called on authorities to investigate the killings and to determine if they constituted hate crimes.“The office expresses its concern over the attacks, threats, and harassment that LGBTI people in the country face,” the office wrote in a statement on its Twitter page. “The Honduran state must guarantee truth, justice, and reparation for these crimes and ensure they don’t happen again.” Cattrachas, a lesbian feminist human rights group in Honduras’ capital of Tegucigalpa, said 405 LGBTQ people have been reported killed in the country since 2009, according to The Blade.Earlier this year, trans activist Thalía Rodríguez, was killed outside her home.
