Meanwhile in Honduras ... people storm court to rescue journalist who exposed government corruption

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Honduras: Journalist who exposed corruption takes refuge in national human rights office

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran journalist David Romero, who exposed a major government corruption case, took refuge Thursday in the national human rights office after filing an official complaint about plans to murder him.

Some 500 supporters of Romero burst into a courtroom in the capital Thursday to take the reporter to the human rights office, just as he was about to give testimony in a slander lawsuit filed against him by Sonia Gálvez, wife of Assistant Attorney General Rigoberto Cuéllar.

“I’ll be living here, [in] this house of human rights … we’re going to sleep here, we’re going to eat here,” Romero told a press conference after meeting with the head of the national human rights office, Roberto Herrera Cáceres. Herrera said the journalist should “feel welcome in this house.”

Romero works for Globo radio and television, which has been critical of the current administration.

http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/07/23/honduras-journalist-who-exposed-corruption-takes-refuge-in-national-human-rights-office


Romero had exposed government officials were stealing the social security money. It was feared he could have been killed in custody: http://news.yahoo.com/journalist-takes-refuge-honduras-human-rights-commission-230722236.html

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