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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 03:28 AM Jan 2012

Women journalists terrorized, peasant spokesman gunned down in Aguán

Women journalists terrorized, peasant spokesman gunned down in Aguán
Published on Tuesday 24 January 2012

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The two women, along with a number of other journalists, organized a march on 13 December that was violently dispersed outside the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa. The purpose of their march was to protest against free speech violations and impunity for those responsible.

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Silvestrucci received a call on her mobile phone yesterday morning from an unidentified individual who told her: “We know that you have three children, that the oldest is 15, that at this moment you are walking down the street with your seven-year-old son and that the oldest is at home looking after the one-year-old baby, and we are going to kill you.”

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Silvestrucci edits the online newspaper El Patriota and produces “En la plaza,” a programme broadcast every weekday morning on Radio Globo. She had just finished yesterday morning’s programme, about a controversial mining bill currently before parliament, when she received the call threatening her and her children.

Both of the news media she works for voiced their opposition to the June 2009 coup d’état from the outset. The coup started a crackdown that has never stopped.

More:
http://en.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=41761

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