Increasing threats against journalist of Aguán
The constant harassment of the victim, journalist Ricardo Emilio Oviedo, president of the Association of Journalists in Colón, was intensified in the last hours to the point of putting his life on the edge, "they shot at my house and my program was taken off the air when I spoke about threats of which we are victims, "he told defensoresenlinea.com, on Wednesday 28 April. The journalist has a program on Channel 40 cable television of Tocoa in the department of Colon. During the coup, he received "suggestions" to be quiet.
. This Tuesday, April 27, we decided break the silence we've had since the death of Nahum Palacios, but when the program was talking about the threats of which we are victims, the channel went off the air.
On April 08 when police and military took over the city and searched people, Oviedo broadcast images of the militarization and a police officer told him to stop "talking so much sh ...".
That same day, at 7:45 pm, bursts of fire were made in front channel 40, also a yellow motorcycle without license plates, driven by two strangers, followed him.
On April 09, a group of people who were in front of the TV station where Oviedo worked, fired shots. On another occasion, two men on a motorcycle followed him to his house, when he left the channel.
Vigilance against him is open, as evidenced by the fact that subjects with Jeans and polo shirts stood at the corner of his house and traces of sneakers have been found at the back of his house.
The follow-up in several times by a beige pickup vehicle, the same as the one of April 14 tried to take him out of the road where he was circulating, with the clear intention of harming him and make it look like an accident.
On April 21, an unidentified man telephoned Ricardo Oviedo and said, "You're going to die," before hanging up.
Since the assassination of Nahum Palacios, the Journalist Association of Colon has decided to lift its vow of silence and this April 27 addressed the issue of threats that the journalists are facing including Ricardo Oviedo and the program was taken off the air, the journalist reported .
Again they opened fire against his house
At about 7:40 pm on April 26 at a time when there was a power failure, his home was fired from a vehicle and although there are soldiers and police in the area, there was no action of these forces or of the Regional Commissioner of Human Rights, to this lack of responsibility can be added the Public Prosecutor's Office, whose coordinator, Arody Mariela Reyes, has refused to address the complaint despite the fact that Oviedo and other members of the Association of Journalists of Colon have waited for more than two hours without results.
A delegation of the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH, who traveled to the Colon area during the week of April 16, documented the threats and actions and made urgent actions to international human rights organizations.
Last week, with the increasing statistics of deaths of journalists in the country, in a press conference, both the Security Minister Oscar Alvarez and the president of the Journalists Association of Honduras, in this activity they didn't refer to concrete actions to solve this problem but they merely "recommended" journalists to be careful about the topics addressed.
COPA blames authorities for what may happen to Journalist
In a statement released by the Coordinating Committee of Popular Organizations of Aguan, COPA, regional authorities, the President of the Republic, the Security Minister and Minister of Defense are blamed "for any act against the physical integrity of fellow journalist RICARDO EMILIO OVIEDO, that would increase the number of violations of freedom of expression and life in the country, as already six journalists have been killed in less than two months. "
The document notes that such events reflect "state terrorism of this regime, led by Mr. Porfirio Lobo Sosa, who has sent military and police to the Aguán area since Saturday April 10, 2010, and who accompanied by other people (Assassins, paramilitaries and others), with the aim of intimidating, stalking, harassing, threatening to death and even murder in the first place the farmers who had recovery actions, journalists, members of Popular Resistance and the people of the area, as is the case of our colleague OVIEDO . "
Source: http://www.defensoresenlinea.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=711:aumentan-las-amenazas-contra-periodista-del-aguan&catid=71:def&Itemid=166 and http://www.revistazo.biz/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1097:te-vas-a-morir-le-dicen-a-presidente-de-asociacion-de-periodistas-de-colon-&catid=19:proyectos&Itemid=19
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