Military kidnap and torture independent journalist

Since the beginning of the dictatorial regime in the country several social communicators have been assaulted and tortured , who have been denouncing the atrocities of the state security forces have committed against the citizenry that demands Roberto Micheletti dictator to relinquish power .

Yesterday morning journalist Cesar Silva was kidnapped by the army, an active member of the Popular Resistance Front , he was heading to his workplace.  

According to reports that transcended the early hours of Tuesday, Silva was detained in a military unit located in San Lorenzo, southern region, where he was taken by military intelligence members of the Armed Forces.

Ramiro Archaga, spokesman of the military  had reported at that time that  in the last hours they had not arrested social communicators and said that  the battalion facilities were open to agencies defending human rights who are free to confirm the presence of Cesar Silva .

However, the general coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) Bertha Oliva,said  the military spokesman denied saying that  Silva was detained without cause for more than 24 hours and during that period he was tortured by his captors ,  was already held by the institution, after having denounced the action taken by military intelligence.

This is the second time that the journalist in mention is repressed by the security forces in the service of the dictatorship headed by Roberto Micheletti and Romeo Vasquez. In the previous August, he was attacked brutally by members of the National Preventive Police while covering a demonstration of the Resistance Front in the center of the capital and damaged his work tools.  

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