Honduras: Day of the endangered lawyer

On Friday 22 January, protests will take place outside Honduran embassies and consulates all over Europe over the increase in violent attacks and human rights violations directed at lawyers and democratic rights activists in Honduras.

Between 2010 and March 2015 there were 91 deaths of lawyers as a result of targeted killings.

In London, lawyers, paralegals and campaigners, with the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, will hand in a petition on behalf of the Honduran lawyers and other law professionals to the Honduran Ambassador.

Protest 22 January 2016 at 12noon at the Honduran Embassy, 115 Gloucester Place, London W1U 6JT. Nearest tube: Baker Street.

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