Second Suspect Gets 15 Years in Lenca Leader's Murder

Published on Honduras Daily · Jun 20, 2026 · Originally reported June 19, 2026 by Radio Cadena Voces (RCV)

Evin Noel Sales Ayala was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the January 2022 murder of Pablo Hernández Rivera, a broadcaster, Indigenous Lenca leader, and human-rights and land-rights advocate in Lempira.

Read the original at Radio Cadena Voces (RCV)

Opens via Google Translate (English). Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

Also reported by: Ministerio Público (X)

Related stories

The Honduras Report

Honduras, in English, in your inbox.

The week's most consequential stories on Honduras with the context behind them, every Thursday. Free.