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Alerts - Honduras

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Honduras

Journalist found dead a week after being kidnapped

News of Alfredo Villatoro's murder spread quickly through the national media and dozens of journalists showed up at the morgue in a show of solidarity for their colleague, condemning his murder.

Honduras

IAPA urges government to act speedily on abduction of journalist

Alfredo Villatoro, with the Tegucigalpa radio station HRN, was driving at 4:45 a.m. on his way to the station, where he is in charge of the newscast “Diario Matutino” (Morning News), when he was intercepted and kidnapped by at least six assailants who were riding in two pickup trucks; he had reported receiving death threats.

Honduras

Journalist, human rights defender killed

Three weeks ago Erick Martínez Ávila had announced his candidacy for deputy of Francisco Morazán department in the Libre party, which is a political wing of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) that was created after the 2009 coup d'état.

Honduras

TV programme director gets hundreds of threatening text messages

According to journalist Edgardo Castro, the discussion of social issues such as speaking in favour of peasants, minimum salaries and in defense of workers, and against crime, is what makes the oligarchy threaten journalists.

Honduras

Shots fired at journalist's home

As Selvin Martínez was returning from a work trip to San Pedro Sula, he saw people in a red car firing towards his home.

Honduras

TV journalist survives assassination attempt

Elder Joel Aguilar, a correspondent for Canal 6, had recently reported on an armed gang holdup of four trucks carrying shipments of coffee.

Honduras

Journalist and human rights defender threatened with sexual violence

Dina Meza Elvir, a journalist and human rights defender with the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras, has receiving threatening telephone calls and text messages.

Honduras

TV show host shot dead

According to reports by Maya TV, journalist Noel Valladares had received death threats and had been subjected to attempted extortion.

Honduras

Radio journalist assaulted, gets death threat from Liberal Party leaders

Radio Globo journalist Rony Espinoza reported that he was attacked and threatened with death by Liberal Party leaders accompanying Monsignor Luis Alfonso Santos to a political event.

Honduras

Journalist receives death threat in Choloma

On the day he received the threats, Alex Roberto Sabillón Gómez had reported on increases in water rates and human rights violations against street vendors and market tenants.

Honduras

Radio journalist killed in Saba

Journalist Fausto Elio Hernández had reported on the municipal administration, the National Registry, farming conflicts in the Bajo Aguan region, and had recently covered the fire at the Comayagua prison that killed 361 prisoners.

Honduras

Radio journalist receives death threat

On the day she was threatened, Mavis Ethel Cruz had discussed on her show a fire in the federal revenue archives, where a list of delinquent accounts had been kept.

Honduras

Journalists receive death threats after reporting on prison fire

"They want to silence us because we have recordings that show what really happened during the fire," said Juan Ramón Flores, owner of Catedral TV.

Honduras

C-Libre vice-president receives death threats

Journalist Danilo Osmaro Castellanos received threats to his life and that of his family, after criticising the management of a high-level municipal official in Copán.

Honduras

Another member of journalists' collective receives death threats

Gilda Silvestrucci, host of the "En la Plaza" programme on Radio Globo, was followed and received threatening phone calls.

Honduras

Peasants' rights activist assassinated in Colón

The director of the Vía Campesina organisation says Matías Valle's murder was an attack on freedom of expression.

Honduras

Lawyer shot to death after reporting on human rights violations

Rosales was killed three days after he reported to "Diario Tiempo" that police officers had assaulted and sexually harassed a group of youths.

Honduras

Journalist who had participated in protest receives death threats

Itsmania Pineda Plateros is a member of a women journalists' collective and in December participated in a protest in front of the Presidential Palace that was suppressed by members of the presidential guard.

Honduras

Journalist assaulted by National Police officers

In his journalism work, Leonel Espinoza has been focusing on topics such as cleansing within the National Police ranks and impunity in cases of murdered journalists.

Honduras

Police officer issues death threat against camera operator

Uriel Gudiel Rodríguez said the threat is related to footage that several media outlets have aired of the main suspect in a murder case.

Honduras

Members of presidential guard, police suppress journalists' protest; two members of C-Libre assaulted

More than 50 journalists, most of them women, held a peaceful protest calling for justice in the cases of 24 journalists who have been assassinated since 2003 and the ongoing attacks on free expression.

Honduras

Security analyst who spoke out against organised crime assassinated

Making full use of his right to freedom of expression, Alfredo Landaverde took on the topics of drug trafficking, organised crime and police corruption.

Honduras

Radio journalist gunned down in Tegucigalpa

"We are deeply troubled by the murder of journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos. Honduran journalists continue to be killed with impunity, and the government's failure to guarantee minimal safety is fostering a climate of lawlessness that is seriously restricting the work of the press," said CPJ.

Honduras

Armed men fire shots at daily's offices

The editor-in-chief of "La Tribuna" believes the attack is linked to reports the daily has published on the assassination of two university students.

Honduras

IAPA condemns threats, intimidation launched against media

IAPA has added its support to a request by the National Human Rights Commissioner that the government investigate complaints of threats so as to ensure the safety of journalists and guarantee freedom of the press.

Honduras

Two journalists receive death threats

Unidentified callers threatened to kill Arnulfo Aguilar and Luis Galdamez even though both journalists have been granted precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Honduras

Journalists fired from online magazine Revistazo.com

Eleana Borjas and Claudia Mendoza say they were dismissed because they disagreed with the magazine's new editorial mandate.

Honduras

Lead suspect in journalist's killing cleared

Marco Joel Álvarez Barahona is the second person to be quickly absolved of David Meza Montesinos's murder after a single hearing, without any proper examination of evidence.

Honduras

Unknown assailants shoot journalist

Reporter Edy Andino was shot in the leg while he was on his way home from work in San Pedro Sula.

Honduras

Armed men threaten journalist, steal his laptop

Two heavily armed men stopped Edgardo Antonio Escoto Amador in the early morning hours, threatened him and stole his bag, which contained important information of national interest.

Honduras

Journalist receives death threats

Mario Castro Rodriguez has also been followed several times by heavily armed men who cover their faces with balaclavas and drive a white car with tinted windows and no licence plates.

Honduras

Pro-Zelaya journalist killed in Bijao

Medardo Flores was part of a Radio UNO collective, which analysed current sociopolitical and cultural issues in Honduras.

Honduras

Assassinated journalist's brother receives death threats

Carlos Alberto Medina Polanco has been told to stop calling for an investigation into the murder of his brother, or he will "meet the same fate".

Honduras

Radio Progreso correspondent receives death threats

Roberto García Fúnez has been reporting on the construction of hydroelectric dams which are being built without the consent of the local community.

Honduras

Canal 36 television station journalists receive death threats

According to the newspaper "El Libertador", journalists Esdras Amado López and Mario Rolando Suazo received death threats after reporting on a potential scandal within the Catholic Church.

Honduras

Journalist dismissed after investigating irregularities in social security institute tender process

Lenis Fajardo was dismissed from her position at the Radio Globo radio station based on instructions given by the station's owner.

Honduras

Radio director killed in Candelaria

Nery Geremias Orellana was shot by unknown assailants while driving his motorcycle from his home in the village of San Lorenzo to the radio station.

Honduras

Criminal investigations police arrest radio producer and environmental activist

Carlos Amador has supported the actions of a large group of residents in the municipality of El Porvenir who are fighting against a forestry development plan in their area.

Honduras

Journalist assassinated in La Ceiba

Adán Benítez was stopped on the street by two unknown assailants who robbed him and shot him to death.

Honduras

Newspaper manager shot by unknown assailants

The general manager of "La Tribuna" newspaper, Manuel Acosta Medina, was intercepted on the street as he was heading home.

Honduras / Venezuela

IAPA angered by journalists' murders, calls for prompt investigations

In Honduras, Luis Mendoza, owner of Canal 24 and a coffee grower, was killed by unidentified masked assailants who intercepted him near the television station.

Honduras

Journalist who had denounced corruption in Morazán gunned down

Francisco Héctor Medina Polanco had previously received death threats for his reports on corruption.

Honduras

Globo TV camera operator brutally assaulted by national police officers

The incident occurred while Uriel Rodríguez was filming a protest by university students that was being dispersed by the police.

Honduras

Radio Uno director ambushed by armed assailants

Journalist Arnulfo Aguilar believes the incident was linked to his coverage of a Wikileaks report implicating the Honduran Armed Forces in illegal arms sales.

Honduras

La Voz de Zacate Grande journalist targeted

After someone sabotaged his vehicle by inserting nails into the car tires, Pedro Canales was intercepted by two men who threatened him and pointed their guns at him.

Honduras

Community radio stations still fighting to survive

Unidentified arsonists set fire to the home of Radio Faluma Bimetu director Alfredo López.

Honduras

Journalist grazed by bullet during dispersal of demonstrators

David Corea Arteaga suffered an injury to the face while covering a violent dispersal of demonstrators in Planes, Colón.

Honduras

National police detain Radio Progreso journalist

National police apprehended Pedro López, a Radio Progeso correspondent, while he was covering a take-over of a road in the community of Triunfo.

Honduras

Journalists injured while covering protest

Richard Cásula and Salvador Sandoval were reporting on the police's attempts to suppress a protest at the Honduras Media Education College.

Honduras

Journalists attacked by National Police officers in separate incidents

The journalists were covering the forcible removal of professors from the Honduras Media Education College (COPEMH).

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