Three men convicted of kidnapping and killing journalist in 2012
Three men convicted of kidnapping and killing journalist in 2012
Published on Friday 28 March 2014.
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the conviction of three men for the murder of Alfredo Villatoro, a journalist who hosted a show on radio HRN and coordinated its programming. He was found dead near Tegucigalpa on 15 May 2012, six days after being kidnapped from his home.
A Tegucigalpa criminal court convicted Marvin Alonso Gómez and two brothers, Osman Fernando and Edgar Francisco Osorio Argujo, on 25 March, exactly 22 months after their arrest on 25 May 2012.
Accepting the detailed evidence presented by the prosecution, which included DNA identification and records of calls to Villatoro’s family demanding a ransom, the court found them guilty of aggravated abduction.
Sentences are to be announced on 25 April. According to the judges in charge of the case, the three men could receive sentences ranging from 40 years to life imprisonment under article 192 of the penal code.
More:
http://en.rsf.org/honduras-three-men-convicted-of-kidnapping-28-03-2014,46054.html
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Murdered journalist, Alfredo Villatoro
Ángel Alfredo Villatoro Rivera (born 1965 in El Progreso, Yoro — d. 15 May 2012 in Tegucigalpa) was a Honduran journalist and radio personality, who was kidnapped and killed in 2012 and is regarded as a "journalist martyr". He was one of the seven journalists killed in Honduras in 2012.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngel_Alfredo_Villatoro
