The Honduran justice system criminalizes those who legitimately exercise their right to defend the rights of others. Charges brought against a journalist and a women’s advocate demonstrate the corruption of the Honduran courts.
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Anoche soñé que todos nos levantábamos para decir No al silencio, porque la libertad de expresión en Honduras estaba con un tanque de oxígeno asechada por la impunidad.
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For the Honduran media, the order of the day is silence. If they stray from the established agenda, they face bullets and death. Dina Meza’s first column for Sampsonia Way.
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Mr. Alvarado, director and presenter of Globo TV’s news programme ‘Mi Nación’ was sentenced to a 16-month prison sentence and a work ban of the same length in December 2013 due to his coverage in 2006 of alleged corruption by a university dean.
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PEN International is shocked by the recent murders of three more journalists in Honduras – Herlyn Iván Espinal Martínez, Nery Francisco Soto Torres and Dagoberto Díaz Suárez (killed 20 July, 14 August and 23 August respectively), which bring to six the death toll for journalists since President Juan Orlando Hernández took office in January 2014.
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Since the coup in Honduras of 2009, at least 32 Honduran journalists have been killed and many more continue to work in a climate of fear and self-censorship. A new PEN International report documents the intertwining roles that allow the violence to continue with near complete impunity.
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Jesuit priest, Ismael Moreno, popularly known as Padre Melo, talks about campesino farmers, indigenous groups, human rights defenders, and journalists all struggling against the assassinations, injustices, and official impunity in Honduras.
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