Click here for photos from Tuesday’s protest. 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 […]
Human rights organizations, church representatives, store owners, businessmen, lawyers, and others joined journalists in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa to demand justice for the targeted group. The most recent murder of radio journalist Luz Marina Paz has sparked outrage among citizens across Honduras, who are seeing cold blooded murder being used as a remedy to […]
Armed men opened fire on La Tribuna newspaper’s building, breaking a glass window in the front, and wounding a security guard. Newspaper editor Martin Ramirez says the assailants fired at least 10 times. Police did not arrive at the scene until five hours later; however, members of the national police condemned the criminal act, and […]
President Porfirio Lobo met with media representatives on Friday, November 25, 2011, to address protection for journalists, and threats against the press. The media has been pointing the finger at the police and military for threats and attacks reporters have received while investigating the findings of police participation in the killing of two university students. […]
Lobo Sosa President of the Republic of Hoduras Centro Cívico Gubernamental Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. Your Excellency, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression is concerned over the death threats to journalist Edgardo Antonio Escoto Amador, also known as “Washo” by some armed men in the city of […]