She was arrested while reporting news from Brazil Embassy on September 22nd, a day after president Zelaya returned to country. She was in jail for 21 days and was released on bail of 100 thousand Lempiras (around $5 thousand dollars) payed by the Colegio de Profesores (Teachers) and with the help of the lawyers Kenia Oliva and Noelia Núñez.

There are six political prisoners still in jail in Honduras, their bail has being denied by the golpista government. Their cases are covered by the decree created by Micheletti which suspends constitutional rights such as public assembly and freedom of speech. Although it was announced the end of this decree, the decision haven’t being published on Honduras Official Journal by the government to become official, therefor the decree is still on.

On September 25th Dr. Juan Almendares, a Honduran medical doctor and award-winning human rights activist wrote a letter reporting about Agustina’s conditions after visiting her in prison. She was brutally beaten by the police at the moment of her arrest, below is video from Al Jazeera (English) about Agustina detation as well as others political prisioners arrested for demonstrate in favor of presidente Zelaya.

After being released Agustina Flores gave an interview by Mario Casasús for the newspaper Clarín from Chile. When asked about her 21 days in jail she respond:

It was difficult, but within it all it has being very nice to know that are so many people and organizations in solidarity with the Resistance, there was not a single day that I wouldn’t receive a visit from my compañeros/as, from the media and is thankful for this that I am out of there, because there were so many people demanding my freedom. At the time of my arrest I was beaten badly, I remembered what we had experienced in the 1980s, when my brother and my mom were persecuted constantly, they chased us as well, we had to move away from La Esperanza in 1978. Micheletti’s dictatorship made me remember the repression from the dirty war, I was afraid to become a missing prisoner. My crime was to fight for my rights, what I told the police: “No problem, tell me what crime I am accused and read me my rights” that bothered them a lot, right when I felt the first blow I told them I was going to denounce to all human rights organizations, including at international level and once they saw themselves threatened they retrain and I didn’t disappeared or was executed. They invented many things, I was on the demonstrations as it allows me the Constitution of the Republic of Honduras, I never denied it, my behavior has never been in a gang as they indicated in prison.

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