00:00The National Emergency System of Honduras delivers to the Public Persecutor's Office conclusive evidence
00:06denouncing an intimidation campaign against free voting with the involvement of organized crime.
00:12On Monday, the National Emergency System 9-1-1 formalized the delivery of a package of certified evidence
00:18to the country's persecutor's office, documenting the intimidation and coercion by criminal groups
00:24during the elections on November 30th.
00:26The evidence is based on almost 900 calls made by citizens to the emergency hotline before and during Election Day.
00:34Among the crimes reported, more than 630 cases of disturbance of the peace at polling stations stand out.
00:41In addition, 37 direct complaints were filed for intimidation by criminal groups and 44 for both buying and selling.
00:49The material delivered to the Public Persecutor's Office includes audio recordings and documentation for each call.
00:55With this evidence, authorities could carry out the necessary investigations to issue persecutions
01:00against those who attempted to undermine the electoral process
01:04and bring to justice those responsible for violating the will of the people.
01:08There are 892 audio recordings of calls received by the National Emergency System 9-1-1 reporting intimidation,
01:24coercion by organized crime, vote buying and selling, alteration of the electoral process,
01:30kidnapping of electoral material, confiscation of voter identification documents for voting
01:35that did not only threaten people, they were not only at the polling stations,
01:38they also went to areas where they knew they were not going to be politically favored
01:42and took away people's identity documents so they could not vote.
01:47This happened in this process.
01:48It was an unprecedented, dirty, fraudulent process and we cannot remain silent.
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