Alert C-Libre
April 1, 2011
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Korean journalist David Arteaga
News Center Columbus (CNC), was wounded in his face while covering the
last Wednesday, a violent eviction of protesters, who carried out the
army and national police in Sector Plan, Department of
Columbus.
"When I started the eviction and other reporters were covering the
news from a strategic point, then the army and police
we stood and began firing at us, it was then when I left
wounded in the face, the height of the jaw, a bullet grazed
fired from one of the rifles that the military had mottled
same bullet that hit the vehicle in which we were covering,
struck in the skull of a security guard said to David
C-free Korea. "
This fact is an attack on press freedom, they knew where we were located and
we recorded did not want events, "said
Korea. On the other hand said that the officer was in charge of operating
by police, was "Santos Diaz Commissioner of Police Station
Tocoa Departamental II, Department of Colon.
The protest was due to a general strike called by the Frente Nacional de Resistencia Popular
(FNRP), held from 7:00 in the morning
vehicle blocking the way between the provinces of Colon and Atlantida
. Minutes later a squad of soldiers and policemen, "in
provocative", arrived on the scene armed with rifles, shields,
masks, tear gas and billy clubs. " The eviction took place as the
12:15 of the day when the protesters were about to leave the place
concluded the journalist.
Source: The Committee for Free Expression (C-Libre), a coalition of
journalists and members of civil society formed to promote and defend
freedom of expression and the right to information in Honduras
and distributed through various regional networks.
For more information contact the Committee for Free Expression (C-Libre), the email
clibre@clibre.info
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