Honduras - Journalist accused of sedition for doing her job in covering a political conflict

Reporters without borders

Albertina Manueles Pérez, correspondent for Radio Progreso, is facing prosecution for broadcasting a communiqué in which an indigenous community refuses to recognize a mayor whose election they claim was fraudulent. Reporters Without Borders condemns, again, the official harassment to which Radio Progreso is regularly subjected. Pérez has been ordered to appear in the Intibucá department court. The communiqué that gave rise to the case against her was issued by residents of San Francisco (...)

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