**Honduras has taken Brazil to court for allowing ousted President Manuel Zelaya to remain in its embassy in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.**Mr Zelaya has been inside the embassy since he secretly returned from a three-month exile on 21 September.
At the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Honduras accused Mr Zelaya of “threatening the peace and internal public order of Honduras”.
It wants the court to order Brazil to stop providing refuge for him.
‘Illegal activities’
Mr Zelaya was sent into exile on 28 June after trying to hold a non-binding vote on whether a constituent assembly should be set up to look at rewriting the constitution.
His opponents said his actions were in violation of the constitution and aimed at removing the current one-term limit on presidents - a charge Mr Zelaya has denied.
Proceedings at the UN court usually take years to settle, but “provisional measures” can be handed down much faster if requested, as Honduras is considering doing, according to Reuters news agency.
In its filing, Honduras requested the court declare that Brazil does not have the right to allow its Tegucigalpa embassy to be used to promote “manifestly illegal activities” by Honduran citizens.
Honduras is currently governed by interim leader Roberto Micheletti.
Honduran elections are due on 27 November, with Mr Zelaya’s term of office due to end at the end of January.