Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Journalist shot dead in Honduras

Honduran journalist Adán Benítez (42) was shot in the head on Monday, 4 July, after two individuals intercepted him and stole his belongings. The journalist and TV producer was killed while he was walking home in La Ceiba, Atléntida department, in the northern part of Honduras. Benítez worked for Radio Makintosh and La Ceiba´s 14 […]

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Pro-Zelaya journalist gunned down in Honduras

According to media reports, 26-year-old Nery Jeremias Orellana was riding a motorcycle to work in the morning when he was stopped and shot in the head by unidentified assailants. He was found on the road connecting  San Lorenzo village to Candelaria. He died later in a hospital. Orellana headed Radio Joconguera de Candelaria in the […]

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Another journalist gunned down in Honduras

Journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos was killed yesterday morning in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, according to news reports. Her driver and cousin, Delmer Osmar Canales Gutiérrez, also died when two men on a motorcycle intercepted their car and riddled them with dozens of bullets. Paz Villalobos was the director of the program “Three in the […]

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Two journalists murdered in Central America

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned Thursday’s murders of two journalists in the Central American countries of Guatemala and Honduras in unrelated attacks. Local TV presenter Yensi Roberto Ordoñez Galdámez was killed in the southern province of Escuintla, Guatemala. He was found in his car with stab wounds to the chest and neck, Guatemalan […]

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