Hermes Ramírez, lawyer for former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, declared on Monday night that his client has not left Honduras and assured, in the midst of an alleged extradition request to the United States, that he enjoys immunity as a deputy of Parliament. Central American (Parlacen).
“Make clear the outrage that my representative Juan Orlando Hernández is facing,” he said in relation to the militarization in the vicinity of Hernández’s residence in Tegucigalpa.
“No type of document has been officially brought to his attention, a natural judge has not been appointed. We do not know why the heads of the Secretary of Security want to enter the home and violate the rights of my representative, ”said Hermes Ramírez to TN5.
The lawyer confirmed that Honduran security agents are guarding Hernández’s residence. He said that “the former president’s work team (lawyers) and human rights defenders are not allowed to enter the home and neighborhood where the former president resides.”
“If we consider it opportune, make it clear and manifest that according to the procedure it must be specifically placed at the order of a natural judge and with due process and not in the way it is being done,” he extended.
“He enjoys the diplomatic immunity of the Central American Parliament, as well as the guarantees of the Constitution such as the principle of innocence,” Ramírez asserted.
Regarding a possible destination without immunity, he estimated: “These legal arguments must be made known and must allow, under the framework of technical defense, to be presented before a natural judge who is the one who will decide the status of my client.”
Hernández, in suspense for alleged extradition order
The United States Government requested the extradition of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (53), the international network CNN confirmed today, through journalist Fernando Del Rincón.
Juan Orlando Hernández, of the National Party, was president of the country from 2014 to 2022.
The United States Attorney’s Office has been insisting for two years that Honduras is a narco-state and that Juan Orlando Hernández and other high-ranking political, judicial and security officials have accepted bribes in exchange for protecting and facilitating drug smuggling in Honduras.
The former president has always denied the accusations that have been made to him from the US about his alleged links with Honduran drug traffickers, of whom he has indicated that they accuse him in an attempt to reduce their sentences in the trials they face in the northern country.
According to the former president, drug traffickers seek “revenge” for the dismantling of their cartels in Honduras during his administration.
“The Foreign Ministry, in accordance with the law, has sent an official communication from the US Embassy to the CSJ, requesting the formal provisional arrest of a Honduran politician for the purpose of extradition to the United States of America,” the la la reported on its Twitter account. Honduran Foreign Ministry.
The request from the United States in this regard would be the first since the new Government of Honduras took office, with Xiomara Castro as president of the Central American country, on January 27, but so far, the Honduran authorities have not spoken.
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