Honduras Enacts Harsher Penalties for Designated Terrorist Groups

Published on Honduras Daily · Sep 29, 2026 · Originally reported September 29, 2026 by HCH

A new law requiring solitary, maximum-security confinement for prisoners identified as members of terrorist organizations, gangs, or maras took effect after publication in the official gazette on September 26.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for HCH, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

Also reported by: Radio América, Congreso Nacional

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