Articles by Comité por la Libre Expresión – C-Libre
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.