Honduras has lodged legal proceedings against Brazil at the U.N. court in The Hague seeking an end to Brazil allowing ousted President Manuel Zelaya to take refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.
Zelaya has been holed up at the heavily guarded Brazilian embassy since he snuck back into the country last month. The leftist leader was removed from office earlier this year by the Honduran Supreme Court and Congress after his repeated attempts to run for another term in office, in violation of the Honduran constitution.
In its filing at the ICJ, or world court, Honduras says Zelaya and others are using the embassy as a platform for political propaganda, "threatening the peace and internal public order of Honduras."
Honduras requested the court declare that Brazil does not have the right to allow its embassy to be used to promote "manifestly illegal activities" by Honduran citizens. It wants the court to order Brazil to stop providing refuge.
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