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Contact:(English o Español): Michael Bass (San Francisco) , Victoria Cervantes (Chicago) (312) 259-504, Honduras Solidarity Network: honsolnet@gmail.com More than 30 organizations in the United States belonging to the Honduran Solidarity Network (HSN) are organizing national actions the week of June 28th in commemoration of the June 28, 2009 Honduran coup – its martyrs, and the ongoing peoples’ movements in […]
May 12, 2012
New York, May 10, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about a recent wave of violence and intimidation against journalists in Honduras, including the abduction of a radio journalist and two attacks on television journalists. “A climate of unrelenting hostility toward Honduran journalists is restricting the flow of news and eroding citizens’ right […]
May 8, 2012
The lifeless body of Honduran journalist Erick Martinez Avila was found Monday in a sewer in Guasculile, on the road leading to the department of Olancho (northeast), and with him totals more than 20 journalists killed during the rule of Porfirio Lobo, according to figures from the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR). Avila, 32 […]
April 24, 2012
TEGUCIGALPA – Television personality Noel Valladares and two companions were gunned down Monday in Tegucigalpa, Honduran police said. A fourth person was wounded in the attack, police inspector Jose Martinez told reporters. Unknown assailants opened fire on the host of the entertainment program “Tecolote” and the other three people as they walked out of the […]
April 24, 2012
Dina Meza, a Honduran journalist and human rights activist, has received a series of threats of sexual violence against her in recent weeks. Her safety is at risk. Dina Meza reports on human rights issues for the website Defenders Online (Defensores en Linea). She is also a human rights activist with the Committee of the […]
March 14, 2012
A group of U.S. lawmakers is calling for a halt in aid to Honduras until the government there makes progress in investigating a rash of journalist deaths in the past two years. Ninety-four members of Congress signed a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday, proposing a cutoff to all military and police aid […]
March 12, 2012
Fausto Elio Hernández, 54, the presenter of the news programme “La Voz de la Notícia” on Radio Alegre de Colón, was hacked to death yesterday in Sabá, in the northeastern department of Colón. Hernández was returning home by bicycle when he got into a violent argument with a man who hit him 18 times with […]
February 18, 2012
Honduras has become a human rights disaster. The country now has the world’s highest murder rate. And impunity for political violence is the norm. For all this, the United States deserves a good deal of the blame. I was pleased to see the New York Times recently publish a hard-hitting op-ed by Dana Frank that […]
January 26, 2012
Gilda Silvestrucci Brussels, 26 January 2012 (ITUC OnLine): Gilda Silvestrucci, a member of the Journalists for Life and Freedom of Expression group, received death threats by telephone on 24 January. The ITUC firmly condemns the constant threats against journalists who dare to exercise their profession. Gilda Silvestrucci was among the women who headed the call […]
January 17, 2012
A Honduras lawyer who revealed to a newspaper that police were torturing detainees was killed three days after the story was published. José Ricardo Rosales was shot dead on 17 January after telling the newspaper El Tiempo of police mistreatment of prisoners in the coastal city of Tela, in northern Honduras. According to the paper, 74 lawyers […]
January 9, 2012
The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) express our concern for repeated abuse committed by the Honduran police against the population. In the last two weeks at least three people have reported assaults and assassination attempts by police officers. January 7, 2012, around 8:00 p.m., Gonzalo Cruz, 42 years old […]
December 14, 2011
Tegucigalpa, Dec 13 (EFE).- Several people were beaten by police and troops here Tuesday during a protest to demand justice for the 24 journalists murdered in Honduras over the last eight years, including 17 slain since January 2010. Some 40 news professionals marched from the eastern part of Tegucigalpa to the presidential palace, where soldiers […]
December 8, 2011
Journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos has been killed in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, along with her driver and cousin, Delmer Osmar Canales Gutiérrez. Two men on a motorcycle intercepted their car when they were driving to work at the Honduras News Channel (HCN) and riddled them with dozens of bullets. Paz Villalobos, the director of […]
December 7, 2011
Journalists in Honduras are facing growing danger, the country’s human rights commissioner has warned. Ramon Custodio was speaking to the Spanish news agency, Efe, a day after a radio host was shot dead. Luz Marina Paz was the 17th media worker to be killed in Honduras over the past couple of years, rights groups say. […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
June 27, 2012
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