Last week the Honduran deputy security minister Armando Calidonio said that none of the ten murders of journalists in Honduras last year were connected to the victim’s work.
International journalism rights groups disagreed.
The Committee to Protect Journalists claim three deaths were because of the journalists’ work.
Reporters Without Borders have now added their comments: Minister insists no journalist was murdered in connection with their work.
Bottom line: No one really believes that NONE of the deaths were related to journalism.
One of the three journalists killed in 2010 in an apparent connection with his work, Nahum Palacios Arteaga, was gunned down after repeated harassment and threats from military personnel in the Aguán region, where there is a great deal of repression.
In the meantime, the Honduran Committee for Free Expression reports that Esdras López, of Canal 36-Cholusat. was threatened in Tegucigalpa by an army lieutenant-colonel. The station was critical of the coup last year.
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