Explore sourced Honduran cases with court outcomes stated precisely. The collection covers adjudicated murders and unresolved attacks on environmental and human-rights defenders, separating international state responsibility from individual criminal convictions.
Cases appear here only when reliable records establish a conviction or equivalent adjudicated outcome. A solved classification never erases unresolved questions about other participants.
Environmental defender and Catacamas council member Carlos Luna López was murdered after publicly denouncing illegal logging and corruption. A material perpetrator was convicted, while the Inter-American Court found serious failures and wider responsibility remains unresolved.
Open case file →Television journalist Aníbal Barrow was abducted in San Pedro Sula in June 2013 and later found dead in Cortés. Four defendants were convicted; two received long terms for murder and related crimes, while two others were convicted of lesser participation.
Open case file →Sisters María José and Sofía Alvarado disappeared after a birthday party in western Honduras in November 2014. Plutarco Ruiz was convicted of femicide and homicide and received an aggregate 45-year prison sentence.
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Lenca leader and environmental defender Berta Cáceres was killed at her home in La Esperanza in March 2016. Eight defendants were convicted in two trials; later appellate decisions upheld the adjudicated core while broader responsibility remained under investigation.
Open case file →These files have adjudicated findings of state responsibility or documented investigative failure but no individual criminal conviction for the killing.
Environmental defender Blanca Jeannette Kawas was killed at her home in Tela in February 1995. The Inter-American Court found that at least one state agent participated, but no individual perpetrator has been convicted.
Open case file →Trans activist Vicky Hernández was killed in San Pedro Sula during the post-coup curfew in June 2009. The Inter-American Court held Honduras internationally responsible for her death and the discriminatory investigation, but no individual perpetrator has been convicted.
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The university student was abducted in downtown Tegucigalpa and never seen again. The Inter-American Court held Honduras responsible in 1988, but no individual criminal conviction was located.
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Soldiers detained Juan Humberto Sánchez twice in July 1992; his body was found days later. The Inter-American Court held Honduras responsible, while individual criminal accountability remained incomplete.
Open case file →Crime by Region distinguishes domestic convictions from international findings of state responsibility. The Blanca Kawas, Vicky Hernández and Manfredo Velásquez Rodríguez files remain partial because neither judgment identified and convicted an individual perpetrator. Carlos Luna López has an adjudicated material-perpetrator conviction, while responsibility for ordering the crime remains unresolved.