Three more killings in country where murders go unpunished
Three more killings in country where murders go unpunished
Published on Wednesday 8 July 2015.
Reporters Without Borders condemns a new wave of murders of journalists in Honduras, where impunity is the rule. Three have been killed in the space of ten days.
The most recent victim is Joel Aquiles Torres, who owned local TV station Canal 67 and had shares in a TV cable company. He was shot dead by suspected contract killers on a motorcycle while driving his car in Taulabe, in the central department of Comayagua, on 3 July. The police said 29 bullet impacts were found in his car and that the motorcycle used by the hitmen was found abandoned 3 km from the scene. Since then, the police have provided no information about the investigation’s progress.
Radio and TV journalist Jacobo Montoya Ramírez was gunned down by suspected contract killers in his home in the western town of Copán Ruinas on 25 June. Witnesses said the gunmen shot him once at the door of his home and then followed him inside to finish him off as his mother looked on.
The body of Juan Carlos Cruz Andara, a journalist with the TV station Teleport, was found inside his home in the northern city of Puerto Cortés on 23 June. He had been stabbed to death.
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http://en.rsf.org/honduras-three-more-killings-in-country-08-07-2015,48085.html
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