Radio Globo’s David Romero had been holed up in a radio station to avoid imprisonment for a 2016 sentence
Journalists argue with police officers after David Romero, journalist and director of opposition broadcaster Radio Globo, was detained on charges of defamation and libel outside the radio station in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on March 28, 2019.Honduran police broke down the door of a radio station and arrested a journalist known as a strong critic of President Juan Orlando Hernandez who had holed up inside, carrying out an arrest order Thursday against the reporter for a defamation conviction.
The journalist took refuge in the radio station’s offices on Monday when a court made public its decision to arrest him.“Given the impossibility of capturing him because he’d barricaded himself inside the radio station, police raided the premises to execute the court order,” presidency minister Ebal Diaz said.
“I know they can kill me and, if that happens, the person responsible is the president,” Romero said as he was forced into a police vehicle. The Honduras-based Committee for Freedom of Expression has counted 41 criminal cases related to crimes against honour since 2003, including 13 targeting journalists. The committee said these cases and the disproportionate sentences “have the effect of intimidation and self-censorship.” It called for decriminalizing such acts.
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