| by Revistazo.com | ||||||||||||||||
| May 19, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
The owner of the Radio La Voz de Occidente in Santa Rosa de Copan in western Honduras, Arturo Rendon and the director of news program "Sucesos"(Events), Manuel Gavarrete, are victims of threats through intimidation and constant phone calls to the radio and cell phone.  The station's owner, Arturo Rendon Pineda, presented on Wednesday 19 May, before the prosecution of common crimes the complaint of receiving death threats since April against his son Rafael Antonio Rendón and against news director, Manuel Gavarrete. The most recent intimidation received took place on May 17 while broadcasting the news. They reported that during the episode, they were offering newswire reading and comments alluding the atrocities being committed in an alarming way by the agencies and institutions involved in the coup of June 28, 2009. They were also making comments regarding the murders of more than six journalists and renowned activists of the National Front of Popular Resistance. Rendón also reported that between April 12 and 16 in the early morning hours, strangers fired bursts with heavy weapons in the vicinity of the radio and in front of his house. The owner of the station believes that the intent is to intimidate, "due to the the absence and indifference of the authorities, which never presented themselves to the scene," he said, so he was forced to go to the Prosecutor's Office. Gavarrete reported that the latest threat was made to his wife saying, "that would end with her and my children's life if I (Manuel Gavarrete) do not shut up." Rendon asked the prosecution to carry out an investigation to determine who are the perpetrators of death threats, while also asking for precautionary measures for all people who are at risk. Data taken from C-Libre alert |
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Journalists of the Radio La Voz de Occidente are receiving death threats
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