Honduras - “Journalism for life” demonstrator receives four death threats in three days

Reporters without borders

“We'll skin you alive, bitch!” With these words the independent journalists and human rights campaigner Itsmania Pineda Platero was threatened on 6 January, then again in three similar calls — once more on the same day, and on 8 and 9 January. During one of the calls, there was the sound of a gun being loaded in the background. Reporters Without Borders holds the Honduran authorities responsible for the safety of the journalist, who walked at the head of the “Journalism for life and free (...)

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