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Honduran lawmaker loses seat for defamation conviction
Source: Associated Press
Honduran lawmaker loses seat for defamation conviction
Associated Press•February 18, 2019
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A Honduran lawmaker was stripped of her seat in Congress on Monday after being convicted last month of defaming and slandering a local banker.
The court sentenced Maria Luisa Borjas of the opposition Libre party to serve two years and eight months in prison, but she can avoid jail by paying a fine equivalent to about $1 per day of the sentence.
But perhaps more damaging is that her congressional seat will be given to an alternate from her party for the duration of her sentence. Borjas said after the sentence was announced that she would appeal it.
Borjas was running for election in 2017 when she read a list of suspected "intellectual authors" from a security ministry report about the 2016 killing of environmental activist Berta Caceres.
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Associated Press•February 18, 2019
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A Honduran lawmaker was stripped of her seat in Congress on Monday after being convicted last month of defaming and slandering a local banker.
The court sentenced Maria Luisa Borjas of the opposition Libre party to serve two years and eight months in prison, but she can avoid jail by paying a fine equivalent to about $1 per day of the sentence.
But perhaps more damaging is that her congressional seat will be given to an alternate from her party for the duration of her sentence. Borjas said after the sentence was announced that she would appeal it.
Borjas was running for election in 2017 when she read a list of suspected "intellectual authors" from a security ministry report about the 2016 killing of environmental activist Berta Caceres.
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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/honduran-lawmakers-loses-seat-defamation-conviction-014316314.html