{"id":10796,"date":"2026-04-14T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:51:13","slug":"honduran-suspended-magistrate-morazan-denounces-politicized-trial-as-political-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/honduran-suspended-magistrate-morazan-denounces-politicized-trial-as-political-persecution-14042026\/","title":{"rendered":"Honduran Suspended Magistrate Moraz\u00e1n Denounces \u2018Politicized Trial\u2019 as Political Persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mario Moraz\u00e1n, a magistrate of Honduras\u2019s Electoral Justice Tribunal, testified before the National Congress on Monday that the impeachment proceedings against him constitute political persecution linked to the 2025 electoral period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Moraz\u00e1n, who personally filed an amparo appeal at the Congress before his appearance, told lawmakers that the process seeks to \u201cseize all institutional legitimacy without respect for the rule of law.\u201d He insisted that \u201cthis is not an impeachment trial; it is a politicized trial\u201d and asserted that he had always acted in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/honduras-congress-dismisses-attorney-general-and-appoints-right%e2%80%91wing-lawyer\/\">Honduras Congress Dismisses Attorney General and Appoints Right\u2011Wing Lawyer<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magistrate argued that the trial lacks impartiality because public statements about his conduct during the 2025 elections had already been made beforehand. In his view, right\u2011wing parties are using the process as a strategy to consolidate power at the expense of political plurality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moraz\u00e1n also challenged the application of the Political Trial Law, stating that it contradicts the fundamental human rights principles established in the American Convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This case adds to a series of prosecutions against prominent Honduran judicial and electoral figures, including former Attorney General Johel Zelaya, former Supreme Court President Rebeca R\u00e1quel, and electoral councilor Marlon Ochoa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ochoa has declared that the trial against him \u201clacks all impartiality\u201d and that the accusations aim to cover up bipartisan corruption practices related to the 2025 electoral fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Moraz&aacute;n, a magistrate of Honduras&rsquo;s Electoral Justice Tribunal, testified before the National Congress on Monday that the impeachment proceedings against him constitute political persecution linked to the 2025 electoral&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[8],"class_list":["post-10796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":8,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"yolaunicaquehay","display_name":"RRebeldeAdminWP","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6145d63ff95c9a0f0e53b7149804b1faf86748d6cc15f466103269a288ea377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10798,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions\/10798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}