Police violence against journalist during student protests
Police violence against journalist during student protests
Published on Wednesday 27 November 2013
Reporters Without Borders condemns police harassment and violence against journalists amid a wave of protests by students disputing the preliminary results from last weekend’s presidential election.
“We call for an end to acts of intimidation and violence against journalists and we urge both the government and the opposition to respect their work,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The authorities must guarantee the safety of journalists and must punish the police officers responsible for so much violence.”
The journalists who have been caught in the clashes between police and students in the past few days include La Tribuna photographer Mario Fajardo and Globo TV correspondent Víctoria Aguilar, who lost consciousness as a result of prolonged exposure to teargas.
On 22 November, two days before the election, Cesar Obando Flores, a journalist with local radio station Libre Estereo in the northeastern department of Colón, reporting receiving phone calls in which he was told he would be killed if he continued his election coverage.
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http://en.rsf.org/honduras-police-violence-against-journalist-27-11-2013,45519.html