Honduras: The risks of Practicing Journalism
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras has become one
of the most dangerous places to practice
journalism if we take into account the
murders of five journalists during March.
The most recent crimes took place last
weekend in Olancho department, where hired
assassins massacred Jose Bayardo Mairena and
Victor Manuel Juarez some minutes after they
finished a space news program in Super 10
radio station in Catacamas locality.
Also David Meza from El Patio radio station
in Ceiba city, Nahum Palacios, news director
of Aguan's television network and Joseph
Ochoa from channel 51 in Tegucigalpa died
under the same circumstances.
Spokesman of the Security Secretariat Leonel
Sauceda stated that the investigations on
the murders are advanced; no one has been
arrested or tried for these crimes yet.
The Human Rights Platform denounced that
this is "a strategy of terror,
immobilization and persecution against those
who oppose the coup."
Many of these journalists used their spaces
as a platform to denounce the rupture of the
institutional order in June 28 and the
violations to human rights committed by de
facto regime of Roberto Micheletti.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemned
the recent attacks and urged the authorities
to investigate the crimes, capture those
responsible for them and take actions to
improve the safety of the journalists. |
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