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Honduran journalist critical of President Hernandez arrested on defamation conviction
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED 52 MINUTES AGO
Honduran police broke down the door of a radio station and arrested a journalist known as a strong critic of President Juan Orlando Hernandez who had holed up inside, carrying out an arrest order Thursday against the reporter for a defamation conviction.
David Romero, director of Radio Globo, was given a 10-year prison sentence in 2016 after he was convicted on several counts of defamation for his reporting on the wife of a former attorney general. Honduras’ Supreme Court rejected Romero’s bid for a new trial earlier this year.
. . .
Local media showed footage of a group of elite police agents violently breaking into Radio Globo, knocking down doors and searching offices until they found Romero, who was transferred to the Tamara prison on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. Dozens of Romero’s supporters, who for days had demonstrated outside Radio Globo, tried unsuccessfully to prevent his arrest.
“I know they can kill me and, if that happens, the person responsible is the president,” Romero said as he was forced into a police vehicle.
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