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Article

1 Jan 2007

Author:
Association for a more Just Society [Honduras]

"Lawyer of the Poor" Gunned Down in Honduras

...Dionisio Díaz García was shot to death in his pickup truck while driving to court by two masked gunmen on a motorcycle...Since early 2006 Díaz had served as the primary labor lawyer for the Association for a More Just Society's Labor Rights for Vulnerable Populations program, which had been running since 2004...Díaz was in charge of providing legal defense and representation for the labor rights of hundreds of security guards employed by 13 different private security companies that routinely violated the legal rights of their employees...[refers to Delta Security Services and Service and its subsidiary Seguridad Técnica de Honduras (SETECH)]