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News Headlines Honduras
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November 11, 2013
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Honduran government officials should publicly repudiate recent criticism of two leaders of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Human Rights Watch said today. The officials should protect the right to speak out about human rights abuses and to express opinions and concerns about the country’s upcoming elections. On a November 5, 2013 episode of the Honduran television talk show “Frente a Frente,” the host, Renato Álvarez, read from what he said was a leaked diplomatic...
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June 27, 2013
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Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the fate of Aníbal Barrow (picture), a journalist who was kidnapped in the northern city of San Pedro Sula on 24 June, four days ahead of the anniversary tomorrow of the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 2009. Barrow, 58, was travelling in a pickup with members of his family on the afternoon of 24 June when they were stopped by several unidentified individuals, who made Barrow’s relatives get out and then drove off...
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December 7, 2012
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Human rights defenders across the Americas are facing escalating levels of intimidation, harassment and attacks at the hands of state security forces, paramilitary groups and organized crime, Amnesty International said in a new report today. The report Transforming pain into hope: Human rights defenders in the Americas, is based on around 300 cases of intimidation, harassment, attacks and killings of human rights defenders in more than a dozen countries primarily between January 2010 and...
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July 13, 2012
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Adonis Felipe Bueso Gutiérrez, a reporter for the Christian radio station Radio Stereo Naranja, was shot dead with two of his cousins on 8 July in Villanueva in the northern department of Cortés while on holiday visiting his family. He was to have taken part in celebrations on 21 July marking the first anniversary of the station, located in Sonoguera in the department of Colón. His death brings to 29 the number of journalists killed in Honduras in the past decade, of...
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February 28, 2012
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Honduras should urgently overhaul its prison system to end overcrowding and improve prison conditions, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 14, 2012, over 300 inmates were killed and dozens were injured during a fire in the Granja Prison in Comayagua, according to local press accounts. Honduran authorities said the fire could have been the consequence of a prison riot or an electrical short circuit. “The tragic deaths of hundreds of inmates, one of the worst incidents of its kind...
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February 14, 2012
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Gilda Silvestrucci (photo) has become the latest member of the “Journalists for Life and Free Expression” collective to get threatening phone calls, following Itsmania Pineda Platero, who received a series of threatening calls earlier this month. The two women, along with a number of other journalists, organized a march on 13 December that was violently dispersed outside the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa. The purpose of their march was to protest against free speech...
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February 1, 2012
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Iran's president on Tuesday lauded his country's newly launched Spanish-language satellite TV channel, saying it would deal a blow to "dominance seekers" - remarks that were an apparent jab at the U.S. and the West. The launch is Tehran's latest effort to reach out to friendly governments in Latin America and follows Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's four-nation tour of the region earlier in January, which included stops in Cuba and visits to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador. It also comes...
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January 16, 2012
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“We’ll skin you alive, bitch!” With these words the independent journalists and human rights campaigner Itsmania Pineda Platero was threatened on 6 January, then again in three similar calls - once more on the same day, and on 8 and 9 January. During one of the calls, there was the sound of a gun being loaded in the background. Reporters Without Borders holds the Honduran authorities responsible for the safety of the journalist, who walked at the head of the...
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December 21, 2011
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Porfirio Lobo Sosa President of the Republic of Honduras Tegucigalpa, Honduras Dear President Lobo: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to express its deep concern about the unrelenting violence against the Honduran press. Our letter to you is prompted by events earlier this month that once again highlight the extraordinary risks that Honduran journalists must take simply to do their jobs. Since the 2009 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, many journalists have continuously...
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December 14, 2011
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the violence used by police and soldiers to disperse yesterday’s demonstration by journalists - mostly women - outside the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa to demand justice for the 24 journalists killed since 2003, 17 of them since the June 2009 coup d’état. The latest journalist to be murdered, last week, was a woman. “The Honduran government’s only response to the dire human rights and civil liberties situation is...
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