Saturday, January 2, 2010

Serious threats against journalist Rony Martinez of Radio Globo





The journalist Rony Martinez, Radio Globo, is being persecuted, monitored and  his vehicle was damaged by unknown people and police who stalk him wherever he is going .  
Martinez with David Romero, Director of Radio and Alejandro Villatoro, owner of same, were threatened and harassed by soldiers who violently entered the radio station since June 28th which carried out the coup against President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, in order to censor their programming that denounces the atrocities of the military dictatorship, headed by Roberto Micheletti and Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, Chief of Joint Staff of the Armed Forces.

The social communicator reported that on 18th December when all the radio staff participated in the Christmas dinner at a nearby business to it, his vehicle's tires were punctured and opened with a yataghan, while the median was a vehicle double cab, 4X4, unmarked, black, and beside it a man with military bearing was watching every movement of Martinez and his teammates who helped him move his car.

"When I tried to get in the car and since  the lock of the driver is wrecked, I went to  the passenger door, the door on the right side, but the tire was low and I thought I had struck out and started to want to inflate it with my partner Luis Ortiz , but the rim and back were punctured and opened with yataghan "he declared.

The danger that this fact resulted in his personal security caused him  great fear and he could not sleep after coming home "because one gets a lot of things come to mind and hypotheses, one tries to deal with the fact that it is not persecution but I have no enemies so far I'll turn  26  and I no have experiences that I can link to any issues. The person who lent him the car told him that it  had never happened to him "

About 20 days before the incident, he described  a day in the afternoon when he got off the vehicle, went up  to the radio but noted that turning around the other side of the street there was a man who was staring at him and  who  shamelessly watched his every move. He was in a white van with  gray tinted windows and no license plates, when he was discovered he  backed up the glass. 

The threats continued on December 21st  when he was in a food business in Colonia Kennedy, when he left his car a few feet away of the place,  saw a police officer who  approached the rear of the vehicle to observe the plate, "I moved immediately because it was not enough for him to see the plate behind  but he also went to see the front one, I walked and  he wanted to see who were the ones who  were in the business where I was at  and  he looked at me and then he went  to see  once again  the  back and forth license plates, I gave him signals asking what happens. " 


Rony denounced that the  police patrol where the officer was had no license plates, and he had not seen the file with his name, but he instead  covered his face with a helmet and wore a bulletproof vest a, but when asked why his car was being  checked The agent left at high speed to avoid being identified. 
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For Rony Martinez  this is an act of persecution, despite American Commission on Human Rights granting him  precautionary measures, an action that requires the State to protect his life. View details. 

He said he fears for his life and that of his family and blamed for everything that can happen, Roberto Micheletti, Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, the Joint Chiefs, the police chiefs and all those who participated directly or indirectly in the coup.

The actions against the reporter Martinez occur in the context of selective repression against several persons in the country that has left several people killed,  their crimes are not investigated or an action was automatically initiated  to combat impunity by prosecutors. David Romero also reported that unknown persons have taken photographs of his house. 

The last violent act against resistance activists was held the Friday before Christmas, when Renan Edwin Fajardo, was hanged in his apartment, in a capital district, hours after he had told friends he was very scared because he was being subjected to threats on his cell phone.

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