Radio Progreso employee murdered after getting threats
Radio Progreso employee murdered after getting threats
Published on Monday 14 April 2014.
Radio Progreso marketing manager Carlos Mejía Orellana was found murdered in his home in the northern city of El Progreso on the night of 11 April. He was stabbed several times in the chest.
Mejía had worked for the past 13 years for El Progreso-based Radio Progreso, one of the many Honduran media that criticized the 2009 coup d’état. According to he station’s manager, Jesuit priest Ismael Moreno, around 15 of its employees have received death threats since the coup.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) formally asked the Honduran government to protect Mejía in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Father Moreno has accused the authorities of ignoring these requests and the threats Mejía received, although his life was clearly in danger.
“We condemn Mejía’s murder and we call on the authorities to carry out a full investigation so that both the perpetrators and instigators are punished,” said Camille Soulier, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Americas desk.
More:
http://en.rsf.org/honduras-radio-progreso-employee-murdered-14-04-2014,46143.html
