Reply #1: Journalist killed, paper attacked as violence against media grows

[Judi Lynn]

Journalist killed, paper attacked as violence against media grows
Published on Thursday 8 December 2011

The murder yesterday of Luz Marina Paz Villalobos, a journalist with the radio station Cadena Hondureña de Noticias (CHN), in Comayagüela on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, brings to 17 the number of journalists killed in Honduras since 2010.

Paz was test-driving a car when two men on a motorcycle opened fire, instantly killing her and a mechanic who was accompanying her.

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“What is the future of journalists who show courage and concern for the right of citizens to be informed? Judicial indifference, a product of the highly polarised media climate since the coup, gives the military and police a free hand to take it out on news organizations that dare to draw attention to the abuses and misdemeanours of public authorities,” Reporters Without Borders concluded.

More:
http://en.rsf.org/honduras-journalist-killed-paper-attacked-08-12-2011,41532.html