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Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) and the Committee for Free Expression (C-Libre) have decided to speak together, a year after the coup of June 28, 2009. This event has made probably one of the most breathtaking failures of fundamental freedoms in a country - in particular to inform and be informed - to the point of it falling to the worst global range for the freedom of journalists.
highlight two main periods in these events. The first - which goes Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by the army and the inauguration of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, Jan. 27 - has been characterized at the media by censorship, sabotage, brutalized and militarized media known for their line of opposition to the coup. This was the case in the chain Cholusat Channel 36, Radio Globo, Radio Progreso, Radio One and community media such as radio Bimetu Faluma Garifuna (Radio Coco Dulce), devastated by an arson attack, on 6 January and whose reconstruction our three organizations participated. Censorship and sabotage also affected the foreign press from the early hours of the coup, and CNN media as diverse as English or Telesur, of which a dozen journalists were expelled.
The second period, post-coup is the last presidential inauguration of this first anniversary, and is distinguished mainly by the murder of eight professionals of the media from March to June 2010:
-Joseph Ochoa, hi-Channel 51, March 1, David Meza
Montesinos, Breaking New Ground and radio chain El Patio, March 11-Nahum
Palacios, hi Aguán Television - Channel 5, March 14-Bayardo
Mairena, Channel 4 chain , March 26
-Manuel Juarez, Radio Excelsior, 26 March
-Luis Antonio Chévez, CA W 105, April 11, 2010 (speaker)
-Georgino Orellana, Honduras Television, April 20
-Luis Arturo Mondragon, string Channel 19, June 14
are added to this list of human rights defenders, as Walter Tróchez, kidnapped and murdered in December. It is possible that all these murders are not related to the political violence gripping the country since last year. But in any case justify the attitude of the authorities is to systematically exclude, a priori, any relationship between these dramas and such violence. However, frequent Nahum denounced persecutions Arteaga Palacios by the army he was a victim before he was killed. Orellana Georgino personally discussed abandoning its previous editorial reasons editors of La Prensa and Televicentro, two friendly media coup. Joseph Ochoa, meanwhile, came under an attack aimed at her fellow Channel 8 chain, Karol Cabrera, by supporting the coup, sheltered since then in Canada. How
deny the evidence of political violence against the media after the incredible assault carried out on 3 June, military and police against the newly established community radio station Voice of Zacate Grande, voice of a rural community conflict with agribusiness magnate Miguel Facussé? How to interpret the nomination at the helm of the public telecommunications company Hondutel, March 8, retired General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, who promotes censorship just after the coup? How to understand the silence of the authorities after two injunctions of the Human Rights Commission for the physical protection of journalists from Radio Progreso and its director, Ismael Moreno, threatened with death?
In the current authorities' willingness to respond concretely to this situation depends on the reintegration of Honduras to the Organization of American States, suspended of the same from a year ago. So far only confirmed the logic born of the coup.
in its fields of competence, our organizations are demanding: Installing
-American Commission on Human Rights permanent Honduras, while not given a noticeable improvement in the exercise of freedom of expression
"That a committee of independent civil investigation formed with the support of the OAS to exercise unhindered power of observation of the investigations into the killings and attacks against journalists committed in the first half of 2010, as well as verification of compliance with the precautionary measures communicators and the media.
"That this work will lead to the creation of real protection mechanisms for professionals in media and research to give the perpetrators and end impunity in which they are murders and assaults against journalists and media.
-recorded and to restore the facilities of the media victims of a military occupation since the June 28, 2009 on the basis of democratic criteria that provide the plurality and diversity information for the commercial, public and community.
"That is a recount of the frequencies along with a visual restructuring of its system of allocation.
-Honduran legislation on access to information, crime of freedom of expression, diversity and media pluralism as soon as possible to fit the international legal standards and the frameworks of the American Convention on Human Rights .
Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) and the Committee for Free Expression (C-Libre) have decided to speak together, a year after the coup of June 28, 2009. This event has made probably one of the most breathtaking failures of fundamental freedoms in a country - in particular to inform and be informed - to the point of it falling to the worst global range for the freedom of journalists.
highlight two main periods in these events. The first - which goes Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by the army and the inauguration of Porfirio Lobo Sosa, Jan. 27 - has been characterized at the media by censorship, sabotage, brutalized and militarized media known for their line of opposition to the coup. This was the case in the chain Cholusat Channel 36, Radio Globo, Radio Progreso, Radio One and community media such as radio Bimetu Faluma Garifuna (Radio Coco Dulce), devastated by an arson attack, on 6 January and whose reconstruction our three organizations participated. Censorship and sabotage also affected the foreign press from the early hours of the coup, and CNN media as diverse as English or Telesur, of which a dozen journalists were expelled.
The second period, post-coup is the last presidential inauguration of this first anniversary, and is distinguished mainly by the murder of eight professionals of the media from March to June 2010:
-Joseph Ochoa, hi-Channel 51, March 1, David Meza
Montesinos, Breaking New Ground and radio chain El Patio, March 11-Nahum
Palacios, hi Aguán Television - Channel 5, March 14-Bayardo
Mairena, Channel 4 chain , March 26
-Manuel Juarez, Radio Excelsior, 26 March
-Luis Antonio Chévez, CA W 105, April 11, 2010 (speaker)
-Georgino Orellana, Honduras Television, April 20
-Luis Arturo Mondragon, string Channel 19, June 14
are added to this list of human rights defenders, as Walter Tróchez, kidnapped and murdered in December. It is possible that all these murders are not related to the political violence gripping the country since last year. But in any case justify the attitude of the authorities is to systematically exclude, a priori, any relationship between these dramas and such violence. However, frequent Nahum denounced persecutions Arteaga Palacios by the army he was a victim before he was killed. Orellana Georgino personally discussed abandoning its previous editorial reasons editors of La Prensa and Televicentro, two friendly media coup. Joseph Ochoa, meanwhile, came under an attack aimed at her fellow Channel 8 chain, Karol Cabrera, by supporting the coup, sheltered since then in Canada. How
deny the evidence of political violence against the media after the incredible assault carried out on 3 June, military and police against the newly established community radio station Voice of Zacate Grande, voice of a rural community conflict with agribusiness magnate Miguel Facussé? How to interpret the nomination at the helm of the public telecommunications company Hondutel, March 8, retired General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, who promotes censorship just after the coup? How to understand the silence of the authorities after two injunctions of the Human Rights Commission for the physical protection of journalists from Radio Progreso and its director, Ismael Moreno, threatened with death?
In the current authorities' willingness to respond concretely to this situation depends on the reintegration of Honduras to the Organization of American States, suspended of the same from a year ago. So far only confirmed the logic born of the coup.
in its fields of competence, our organizations are demanding: Installing
-American Commission on Human Rights permanent Honduras, while not given a noticeable improvement in the exercise of freedom of expression
"That a committee of independent civil investigation formed with the support of the OAS to exercise unhindered power of observation of the investigations into the killings and attacks against journalists committed in the first half of 2010, as well as verification of compliance with the precautionary measures communicators and the media.
"That this work will lead to the creation of real protection mechanisms for professionals in media and research to give the perpetrators and end impunity in which they are murders and assaults against journalists and media.
-recorded and to restore the facilities of the media victims of a military occupation since the June 28, 2009 on the basis of democratic criteria that provide the plurality and diversity information for the commercial, public and community.
"That is a recount of the frequencies along with a visual restructuring of its system of allocation.
-Honduran legislation on access to information, crime of freedom of expression, diversity and media pluralism as soon as possible to fit the international legal standards and the frameworks of the American Convention on Human Rights .
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