Catalina Botero, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), said there are “permanent forms of exclusion and censorship” in the wake of the coup that overthrew Manuel Zelaya, Telesur reports.
Botero reported receiving 12 complaints of media shut-downs and information about at least 25 journalists currently at risk. “Public media outlets which had favored president Zelaya were taken over, and the workers were fired,” she added.
She said the IACHR is monitoring the situation and is gathering the necessary information to process the complaints.
The crisis has also generated a “media war.” Claudia Parsons of Reuters says the tug of war between Zelaya and the de facto government has taken place on TV. The ousted president had to resort to networks like CNN en Español to broadcast live footage of his return to Honduras. Micheletti’s government, on the other hand, has used the state media to spread messages against the deposed president. (Juana Casas, also from Reuters, wrote a piece in Spanish on media in Honduras since the coup.)
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Humaan rights world wide
This discussion should lead us to think about the global order. We need a change, we need a power which rises above its tiny interests and make a real imapct, leaving behind th economic and power interests
it a given with the coup
it a given with the coup junta. how about press self censorship in the us who support this regime?
Human rights in Honduras
What is happening at the moment in Honduras is a human rights disaster. How many more people must disappear or suffer assassination?
Time for action from all round the world against this vicious coup regime: http://riversstream.blogspot.com/2009/07/hundreds-disappearing-in-hondur...
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