TEGUCIGALPA, Mar 31, 2010 (IPS) - Reporters in Honduras have long complained about gag laws, threats, exile and attacks. But never before have so many journalists been killed in one month.
The deaths of five reporters in this impoverished Central American country in March drew expressions of concern from international organisations like Reporters without Borders, the International Press Institute and Human Rights Watch.
Along with its neighbours Guatemala and El Salvador, Honduras is one of the most violent countries in the world, with 14 deaths a day blamed on organised crime and youth gangs. Many of the bodies turn up with signs of torture, and bound at the hands and feet.
But local and international human rights groups warn that since the Jun. 28, 2009 coup that overthrew then president Manuel Zelaya, the wave of repression targeting the movement against the coup, as well as journalists, has not let up, despite the November elections and the January inauguration of right-wing President Porfirio Lobo.
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