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Harassment and violence

News coverage exposes journalists to growing danger

Published on 9 April 2013Read

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Forced to self-censorship

Journalist suspends popular radio programme amid mounting threats

Published on 18 March 2013Read

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Journalists and human rights defenders stigmatized for covering land conflicts

The Honduran Committee of Families of Disappeared Detainees (COFADEH) has told Reporters Without Borders that grave allegations were levelled (...)

Published on 21 February 2013 Read

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RWB alerts minister to case of journalist threatened by her “protectors”

Ana Pineda, Minister of Justice and Human Rights Ramon Custodio, Honduran Human Rights Commissioner Dear Minister/Dear Commissioner (...)

Published on 8 January 2013 Read

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Open letter to Mr. Miguel Edilberto Vélez Núñez, head of the Conatel Honduras

Reporters Without Borders wrote today to Miguel Edilberto Vélez Núñez, the head of the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL), deploring (...)

Published on 23 November 2012 Read

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Freelancer needs protection, while new election cycle fuels concern

Karla Zelaya, a freelance journalist and spokesperson for the Aguán United Peasant Movement (MUCA), needs urgent protection and international (...)

Published on 7 November 2012 Read

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Robber gets 28 years in prison for murdering TV journalist

Jonathan Cockborn Delgado, a man previously wanted for armed robbery, was sentenced yesterday to 28 years in prison for the murder of Televisión (...)

Published on 12 September 2012 Read

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More threats and attacks on human rights activists

There have been more cases of human rights activists, civil society representatives and journalists being harassed and threatened. In one of the (...)

Published on 23 August 2012 Read

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Another journalist slain, special mechanism for protecting journalists announced

José Noel Canales Lagos, a 34-year-old journalist who had worked for the Hondudiario news website for the past 12 years, was gunned down in the (...)

Published on 16 August 2012 Read

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Son wounded in shooting attack on journalist’s home, no let-up in threats

Two armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on the home of José Encarnación Chinchilla, a reporter for the national commercial station Radio Cadena (...)

Published on 6 August 2012 Read